ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,318, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ResMed Pty Ltd (Bella Vista, Australia).
"Methods and apparatus for assessing sleep quality" was invented by Renee Frances Flower (Sydney), Philip Rodney Kwok (Sydney), Muditha Pradeep Dantanarayana (Sydney) and Ron Richard (Escondido, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and/or methods for assessing the sleep quality of a patient in a sleep session are provided. Data is collected from the patient and/or physician including, for example, sleep session data in the form of one or more physiological parameters of the patient indicative of the patient's sleep quality during the sleep sessi...