US Patent Issued to University Of Maryland, Baltimore on Sept. 9 for "Automatic ultrasound titration of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment for sleep apnea" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,285, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to University Of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore).

"Automatic ultrasound titration of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment for sleep apnea" was invented by Jeffrey S. Wolf (Owings Mills, Md.) and Amal Isaiah (Hanover, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for automated titration of CPAP device for a subject include receiving multiple ultrasound images representing a cross section of an airway in a neck of the subject at corresponding different times. Multiple different positive pressure values imposed by a device on the airway of the subject are also received at each of the...