US Patent Issued on March 11 for "System and method for sensing with millimeter waves for sleep position detection, vital signs monitoring and/or driver detection" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,726, issued on March 11.

"System and method for sensing with millimeter waves for sleep position detection, vital signs monitoring and/or driver detection" was invented by George Shaker (Waterloo, Canada), Mostafa Alizadeh (Kitchener, Canada) and Hajar Abedi (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor and method for sleep position detection including: a transmitter configured to transmit electromagnetic waves between 30 GHz and 300 GHz; a receiver configured to receive the electromagnetic waves from the transmitter, wherein the transmitter and receiver are positioned in relation to person sleeping such that the receive...