ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,287, issued on May 20, was assigned to ResMed Sensor Technologies Ltd. (Ireland).

"Apparatus, system, and method for health and medical sensing" was invented by Redmond Shouldice (Clonskeagh, Ireland), Stephen Mcmahon (Dundrum, Ireland) and Michael Wren (Clonskeagh, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices provide physiological movement detection, such as breathing, cardiac and/or gross body motion, with active sound generation using electronic processing device(s). The processor may control producing, via a speaker coupled to the processor, a sound signal in a user's vicinity. The processor may control sensing, via...