ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,075, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Contactless and real-time sleep monitoring" was invented by Durga Laxmi Narayana Swamy Inti (San Jose, Calif.), Saravanan Sathananda Manidas (Milpitas, Calif.), Vitor Baisi Hadad (Menlo Park, Calif.), Wesley Terrence Hong (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kandarp Shah (San Jose, Calif.), Sai Prashanth Chinnapalli (Dublin, Calif.) and Joel Norman Kristian Carlson (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies of contactless and real-time sleep tracking are described. One method of a sleep-monitoring device includes receiving radar data from a radar unit, the radar d...