US Patent Issued to The Jackson Laboratory, The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on Nov. 3 for "Visual determination of sleep states" (Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,493, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine) and The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Visual determination of sleep states" was invented by Vivek Kumar (Bar Harbor, Maine), Allan I. Pack (Bar Harbor, Maine), Brian Geuther (Bar Harbor, Maine), Joshy George (Bar Harbor, Maine) and Mandy Chen (Bar Harbor, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein provide techniques for determining sleep state data by processing video data of a subject. Systems and methods may determine a plurality of features from the video data, and may determine sleep state ...