US Patent Issued to THE ALFRED E. MANN FOUNDATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH on July 21 for "Systems and methods for treating obstructive sleep apnea with automatic starts and stops" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,865, issued on July 21, was assigned to THE ALFRED E. MANN FOUNDATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (Valencia, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for treating obstructive sleep apnea with automatic starts and stops" was invented by Brian Shelton (Ventura, Calif.) and Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for detecting and/or treating obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) experienced by a subject, using one or more implanted or external sensors. In some aspects, the systems and methods described herein are configured to classify the human subject as being awake or ...