ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,245, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ResMed Pty Ltd (Bella Vista, Australia).

"Prediction of usage or compliance" was invented by Nathan Zersee Liu (Sydney), Sakeena De Souza (Sydney) and Oleksandr Gromenko (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods have been developed to increase user compliance and adherence to various devices and services including respiratory therapy devices, exercise equipment, and online or other software services. For instance, in some examples the disclosed technology may monitor usage data output from a respiratory therapy device, exercise equipment or computer software program to deter...