ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,008, issued on June 16, was assigned to Sunrise SA (Namur, Belgium).

"Systems and methods for a wearable device for improving sleep" was invented by Pierre Martinot (Namur, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is in the field of sleep and respiratory care. In particular, the present disclosure provides means and methods for stimulating select muscles of a subject for improving sleep. A wearable device is provided to be worn on the head of the subject and having stimulating electrodes arranged on the wearable device such that when the wearable device is worn by the subject the electrodes contact the subject's ...