ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,792, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Spire Inc. (San Francisco).
"System and method of monitoring respiration" was invented by Jonathan Paul K. Palley (Fair Oaks, Calif.) and Zhao Zhao (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for monitoring respiration of a user, comprising: a respiration sensing module including a sensor configured to detect a set of respiration signals of the user based upon movement resulting from the user's respiration; a supplementary sensing module comprising an accelerometer and configured to detect a set of supplemental signals from the user; an electronics subsystem comprising a power mod...