US 12,318,550 B2
Device and method for controlling respiration during sleep
Anat Arzi, Rehovot (IL); Lee Sela, Rehovot (IL); Anton Plotkin, Rehovot (IL); Aharon Weissbrod, Rehovot (IL); and Noam Sobel, Jaffa (IL)
Assigned to Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd., Rehovot (IL)
Filed by Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd., Rehovot (IL)
Filed on Oct. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/975,625.
Application 17/975,625 is a continuation of application No. 16/545,007, filed on Aug. 20, 2019, granted, now 11,491,301.
Application 16/545,007 is a continuation of application No. 13/520,581, granted, now 10,456,550, issued on Oct. 29, 2019, previously published as PCT/IL2011/000011, filed on Jan. 5, 2011.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/282,233, filed on Jan. 5, 2010.
Prior Publication US 2023/0055651 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61M 21/00 (2006.01); A61M 15/08 (2006.01); A61M 16/10 (2006.01); A61M 21/02 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 21/02 (2013.01) [A61M 15/085 (2014.02); A61M 16/10 (2013.01); A61M 2021/0016 (2013.01); A61M 2021/0088 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3375 (2013.01); A61M 2230/40 (2013.01); A61M 2230/63 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
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1. A method of providing an odor during sleep, the method comprising:
monitoring physiological characteristics of a sleeper during a sleep period; and
automatically dispersing an odor, in response to said monitoring, and
changing a type of said odor to be dispensed at least once during the sleep period.