ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,393, issued on July 22, was assigned to Inspire Medical Systems Inc. (Golden Valley, Minn.).

"System and method for collecting and displaying data acquired from an implantable therapy device using a consumer electronic device" was invented by John Rondoni (Plymouth, Minn.) and David Todd Dieken (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises establishing communication between a therapy device implantable in a patient and a consumer electronic device operable by the patient. The method comprises controlling, by the consumer electronic device, a predetermined set of therapy device functions in response to patient inputs ...