While Apple began working on Sleep Monitoring systems in 2017, USPTO just published Google's first patent for their 'Sleep Sensing' technology
Apple acquired Beddit back in 2017 and has been filing patents since that time to advance sleep monitoring systems. In 2020, Apple introduced Sleep Tracking with iOS 7. Apple recognized early on that sleep monitoring could play an important part of their new focus on personal health care. Now Google wants in on this market and introduced their sleep monitoring system last year. Our report covers Google's sleep monitoring patent that takes an indirect kick at Apple's approach.
Source: patentlyapple.com
