ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,193, issued on July 15, was assigned to ResMed Sensor Technologies Ltd. (Ireland).
"Apparatus, system, and method for detecting physiological movement from audio and multimodal signals" was invented by Stephen McMahon (Dublin), Damien O'Rourke (Dublin), Alberto Zaffaroni (Dublin), Redmond Shouldice (Clonskeagh, Ireland), Tony Fagan (Dublin), Niall Fox (Dublin), Niall O'Mahony (Dublin) and Graeme Lyon (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices provide physiological movement detection with active sound generation. In some versions, a processor may detect breathing and/or gross body motion. The processor may control prod...