Patents by Inventor Paul Robert MANGER

Paul Robert MANGER has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Systems, methods, and an apparatus for controlling a sleep environment and waking a sleeping person
    Patent number: 11519621
    Abstract: This invention relates to a systems, methods and apparatuses for controlling a sleep environment, particularly for controlling an indoor sleep environment, and to a method and system of waking a sleeping person. The invention monitors one or both of wet-bulb globe temperatures (WBGTs) within the sleep environment and outdoors with a view to either altering the WBGT within the sleep environment to mimic a nadir or inflection point typically found outdoors and/or generate an alarm when a nadir or inflection point of the WBGT outdoors is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignees: University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, The Regents of the University Of California
    Inventors: Paul Robert Manger, Joshua Gabriel Davimes, Adhil Bhagwandin, Iiike Bianca Philander, Jerome Melvin Seigel
  • SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND AN APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A SLEEP ENVIRONMENT AND WAKING A SLEEPING PERSON
    Publication number: 20210348786
    Abstract: This invention relates to a systems, methods and apparatuses for controlling a sleep environment, particularly for controlling an indoor sleep environment, and to a method and system of waking a sleeping person. The invention monitors one or both of wet-bulb globe temperatures (WBGTs) within the sleep environment and outdoors with a view to either altering the WBGT within the sleep environment to mimic a nadir or inflection point typically found outdoors and/or or generate an alarm when a nadir or inflection point of the WBGT outdoors is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Paul Robert MANGER, Joshua Gabriel DAVIMES, Adhil BHAGWANDIN, Iiike Bianca PHILANDER, Jerome Melvin SEIGEL