US Patent Issued to Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Reseach Organisation on Jan. 28 for "Prediction and intervention of obstructive sleep apnoea" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,209, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Reseach Organisation (Campbell, Australia).

"Prediction and intervention of obstructive sleep apnoea" was invented by Omid Bafkar (Victoria, Australia), Vu Thua Nguyen (Victoria, Australia), Gary Rosengarten (Victoria, Australia), Ivan Stuart Cole (Victoria, Australia) and Stefan Gulizia (Victoria, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods for the simulation of the upper airway of a subject. One embodiments provides a method (100) including the initial step (101) of receiving one or more tomographic images of the sub...