US Patent Issued on Feb. 17 for "Enhanced pulse oximetry systems and methods for the diagnoses of sleep-associated breathing disorders" (Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,168, issued on Feb. 17.

"Enhanced pulse oximetry systems and methods for the diagnoses of sleep-associated breathing disorders" was invented by Scott Barcus (Kennewick, Wash.), James Blevins (Portland, Ore.), John A. Cadwell (Richland, Wash.), Kacee Giger (Kennewick, Wash.) and Colton Wallin (Pasco, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present specification describes a system and method of detecting sleep disordered breathing, that includes acquiring a set of unconditioned sleep test data that includes oximetry data and at least one other physiological sensor data; sampling the set of unconditioned sleep test data; storing the sa...