ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,550, issued on June 3, was assigned to Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).
"Device and method for controlling respiration during sleep" was invented by Anat Arzi (Rehovot, Israel), Lee Sela (Rehovot, Israel), Anton Plotkin (Rehovot, Israel), Aharon Weissbrod (Rehovot, Israel) and Noam Sobel (Jaffa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for controlling respiration during sleep based on the user physiological characteristic. The device includes an odor disperser for dispersing an odor; at least one detector for detecting a physiological characteristic of a user; and a controller for controlling respiration...