Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for improving sleep (including reducing sleep onset and maintenance of sleep duration), enhancing, or increasing sleep, including (but not limited to) treating sleeping disorders such as insomnia.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 26, 2018
Date of Patent:
December 15, 2020
Assignee:
Ebb Therapeutics, Inc.
Inventors:
Rick W. Walker, Edward P. G. Doughertry, Jason A. Belton, Robert E. Tucker, Jeffrey J. Schirm
Abstract: Apparatuses and methods to enhance sleep, reduce sleep onset latency, extend sleep duration and/or increasing the duration of deeper sleep stages relative to stage 1 sleep. In general, these apparatuses and methods apply and maintain one or more target “warm” temperatures to a subject's forehead for a time period. The target temperature may be between 25° C. and 42° C. The target temperature may be a fixed amount greater than ambient temperature. The time period may be a fixed time period or a variable time period. These methods and apparatuses may limit the application of thermal energy to the subject's forehead region.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 11, 2015
Date of Patent:
February 26, 2019
Assignees:
Ebb Therapeutics, Inc., University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
Inventors:
Eric A. Nofzinger, Jeffrey J. Schirm, Damian F. Rippole, Craig B. Reynolds, Robert E. Tucker
Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for improving sleep (including reducing sleep onset and maintenance of sleep duration), enhancing, or increasing sleep, including (but not limited to) treating sleeping disorders such as insomnia.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 2, 2014
Date of Patent:
August 28, 2018
Assignee:
Ebb Therapeutics, Inc.
Inventors:
Rick W. Walker, Edward P. G. Doughertry, Jason A. Belton, Robert E. Tucker, Jeffrey J. Schirm