Patent issued to device that detects brain injury through sleep movement, Medical Xpress reports

Medical Xpress published a University of Maine news release announcing UMaine was recently issued a patent for a device that detects brain injury by measuring sleep movement patterns. The technology will be licensed by Activas Diagnostics, a UMaine spinoff company. The invention is a fitted mattress sheet equipped with more than a dozen sensors that will allow it to gather information about a person’s sleep-wake and respiratory patterns while a person is sleeping at home instead of in a sleep study facility. The SleepMove monitoring system has the potential to detect early symptoms of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease. The UMaine inventors are Marie Hayes, professor of neuroscience, and Ali Abedi, assistant vice president for research and professor of electrical and computer engineering. ECN also published the release.