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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2018
Applicant:
University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin, Dublin, IE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61F 5/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/4557 (2013.01); A61B 5/4519 (2013.01); A61B 5/486 (2013.01); A61B 5/4836 (2013.01); A61B 5/4839 (2013.01); A61B 5/682 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0247 (2013.01); A61F 2005/563 (2013.01);
Abstract
An oral appliance () comprising a sensing arrangement () disposed in proximity to at least one part of a facial muscle complex of a user. A method of controlling the oral appliance () comprising sensing, with the sensing arrangement (), the at least one part of the facial muscle complex being brought towards the sensing arrangement; and in response to sensing the at least one part of the facial muscle complex being brought towards the sensing arrangement (), controlling the oral appliance () to perform an action. An external processing unit () is arranged to interact with the oral appliance () in response to the oral appliance () performing the action.