US Patent Issued to THE ALFRED E. MANN FOUNDATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH on May 6 for "Acoustic sensing for respiration detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,687, issued on May 6, was assigned to THE ALFRED E. MANN FOUNDATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (Valencia, Calif.).

"Acoustic sensing for respiration detection" was invented by Brian M. Shelton (Altadena, Calif.), Sahar Elyahoodayan (Los Angeles) and Harshit R. Suri (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides systems and methods for treating obstructive sleep apnea using an acoustic sensor configured to detect acoustic sounds generated by the heart and lungs. Sensory data from the acoustic sensor is used by an implanted stimulation system to determine when to deliver electrical stimulation to a nerve which in...