The history of med-tech patent litigation is replete with long-running conflicts that test the willpower of the participants, which increasingly seems to be the case in a series of lawsuits between Masimo Corp. and Apple Inc.

Onera Technologies BV raised €30 million (US$32.7 million) in a series C funding round that will allow the company to accelerate the manufacturing and deployment of its patch-based sleep test system. The funds will also go towards concluding the development of the company’s second-generation polysomnography (PSG) system.

Investors bailed on many med-tech companies last year, fearing that the frenzy surrounding GLP-1 agonists would tank companies in the weight-loss, diabetes and orthopedics segments. Their concerns now appear overblown in many instances, with some of the most directly affected businesses reporting a “rising tide” associated with an increased focus on obesity treatment that has lifted their boats rather than sinking them.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published new enablement guidelines Jan. 10 to provide more consistency across technologies to ensure patent applications truly enable the breadth of their claims in keeping with the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision last year in Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi SA.

In what represents the first patenting from Immersive Reality Group LLC, the company’s co-founders describe their Intellighealth system for detecting the early onset of respiratory diseases using artificial intelligence and wearable remote health monitoring technologies.