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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2017
Applicant:
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 5/56 (2006.01); A47G 9/10 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 5/56 (2013.01); A47G 9/10 (2013.01); A61B 5/6887 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0204 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of treating snoring among two users includes determining that snoring by at least one of the users is occurring, and responsive thereto, either: (a) determining that only one of the at least two users is snoring and responsive thereto generating a signal to produce an anti-snoring motion in an active pillow associated with the one user and generating another signal to produce a distracting motion in another active pillow associated with the other user; or (b) determining that both of the users are snoring and responsive thereto generating signals to produce anti-snoring motions in each of the active pillows.