ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,607, issued on May 12, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (Columbia, S.C.).

"Human sleep posture extraction from millimeter-wave wireless systems" was invented by Sanjib Sur (Cayce, India) and Aakriti Adhikari (Columbia, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methodology and corresponding apparatus pertain to human sleep posture monitoring, using a wireless signal-based monitoring system leveraging millimeter-wave technology. A software-only human sleep posture monitoring solution based on millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless-based solutions enables fine-grained posture monitoring under no light without being privacy-invasive. In...