ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,220, issued on April 22, was assigned to MaRI Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Sleep apnea treatment apparatus and method" was invented by Hirofumi Taki (Kyoto, Japan), Yoshiaki Motoyama (Kyoto, Japan) and Shigeaki Okumura (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sleep apnea treatment apparatus including a stimulation device that applies a stimulation to a subject, and a controller including circuitry which receives sounds produced by the subject, converts the sounds to received sound signals, obtains snoring sound information from the received sound signals, calculates an impact of snoring sound produced by the subject based on the sn...