ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,422, issued on March 11, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).
"Method and system for detection and validation of nocturia in a person" was invented by Balasubramaniam Krishnan (Bangalore, India), Ramesh Balaji (Chennai, India), Srinivasa Raghavan Venkatachari (Chennai, India), Arun Vijayakumar (Kochi, India) and Harish Kumar Dhanasekaran (Chennai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Nocturia has been defined as the need for an individual to wake up one or more times during the night to void. Further, Nocturia detection also requires analysis of sleeping pattern of the person. In such cases a lot of assump...