US Patent Issued to XII Medical, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation on May 26 for "Systems and methods for improving sleep disordered breathing" (Ohio, Kentucky, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,497, issued on May 26, was assigned to XII Medical Inc. (Union City, Calif.) and The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland).

"Systems and methods for improving sleep disordered breathing" was invented by Anthony V. Caparso (North Ridgeville, Ohio), Josh Nickols (Louisville, Ky.), Francis A. Papay (Cleveland) and Kelly Emerton (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neuromodulation system is provided herein. The system can include a neuromodulation device, an electronics package, which can be part of the neuromodulation device; an external controller; a sensor; and a computing device. The neuromodulation device can includ...