ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,255, issued on June 3, was assigned to AmCad BioMed Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Methods for predicting the risk of obstructive sleep apnea" was invented by Argon Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Yi-li Lee (Taipei, Taiwan), Pei-Yu Chao (Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Hao Chen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Wei-Yu Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are computer-implemented or computer-aided method for diagnosing or predicting the risk of obstructive sleep apnea in a subject. The methods comprise determining whether the subject has obstructive sleep apnea based on at least one quantitative ultrasound parameter and/or at least one morphometric p...