US Patent Issued to Inspire Medical Systems on Feb. 3 for "Accelerometer-based sensing for sleep disordered breathing (SDB) care" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,418, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Inspire Medical Systems Inc. (Golden Valley, Minn.).

"Accelerometer-based sensing for sleep disordered breathing (SDB) care" was invented by Dave Dieken (Minneapolis), Kevin Verzal (Lino Lakes, Minn.), John Rondoni (Plymouth, Minn.), Quan Ni (Golden Valley, Minn.), Darrell Wagner (Ham Lake, Minn.), Christopher Thorp (Minneapolis), Everardo Villasenor (Golden Valley, Minn.), Michael Hedin (Golden Valley, Minn.) and Nicole C. Moskowitz (Golden Valley, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first sensing element including an accelerometer-based sensor for sleep disordered breathing (SDB) care."

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