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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:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2013
Sleepy, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Joshua Makower, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Earl A. Bright, II, Los Altos, CA (US);
Eric Goldfarb, Belmont, CA (US);
William Facteau, Atherton, CA (US);
Ravinder D. Pamnani, Belmont, CA (US);
Joseph Catanese, III, San Leandro, CA (US);
Theodore Bender, San Anselmo, CA (US);
Imraan Aziz, Oakland, CA (US);
Kyle Lamson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Strasser, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jason Hegener, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sleepy, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A device for receipt in a user's mouth includes a tongue engagement element having a front region, a rear region, and side regions that define an opening for receiving a user's tongue, means for retaining the user's tongue in a forward position, and means for changing the size of the opening. The tongue engagement element is shaped such that when placed in a user's mouth, the rear region extends over the user's tongue and the front region extends under the user's tongue. A method of securing a tongue engagement element in a user's mouth includes moving an expanded tongue engagement element under a front region of a tongue and over a rear region of the tongue, and allowing the tongue engagement element to return toward a non-expanded state. The tongue engagement element acts to resist rearward motion of the tongue.