ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,508, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to METAL INDUSTRIES RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"In vitro training method and device for improving sleep apnea" was invented by Bol-Wei Huang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Yu-Sheng Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Tung-Lin Tsai (Tainan, Taiwan) and Chun-Chieh Tseng (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in vitro training method includes scanning a user's oral cavity to create a first oral cavity model. An articulator body is selected according to the first oral cavity model, and plural first customized electrode sheets are formed and assembled onto the articulator body to obtai...