US Patent Issued to Kyoto University on May 27 for "Sleep apnea syndrome determination apparatus, sleep apnea syndrome determination method, and sleep apnea syndrome determination program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,743, issued on May 27, was assigned to Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan).

"Sleep apnea syndrome determination apparatus, sleep apnea syndrome determination method, and sleep apnea syndrome determination program" was invented by Koichi Fujiwara (Kyoto, Japan), Chikao Nakayama (Kyoto, Japan) and Ayako Iwasaki (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sleep apnea syndrome determination apparatus includes a processing unit configured to, by using RRI data indicating a heart rate interval (R-R Interval: RRI) in a sleeping period of a subject, determine whether or not the subject has sleep apnea syndrome. The processing unit operates to...