ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,786, issued on March 17, was assigned to Whoop Inc. (Boston).
"Detecting sleep intention" was invented by Emily Rachel Capodilupo (Boston) and John Vincenzo Capodilupo (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable physiological monitoring device is configured to determine a wearer's sleep intention. In particular, the device evaluates activity that might be objectively associated with awaking from sleep in order to distinguish between a wearer's intention to end sleep and transitory stirring or other intermittent activity occurring in the context of a longer sleep interval. By evaluating sleep intention more accurately in this m...