ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,125, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to DP Technologies Inc. (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

"Sleep surface sensor based sleep analysis system" was invented by Philippe Richard Kahn (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Arthur Kinsolving (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Mark Andrew Christensen (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Venkat Easwar (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising receiving data from a sleep sensor integrated in a mattress system, the sleep sensor coupled via a cord to a data collection unit, analyzing the data at the data collection unit, and providing results of the analyzed data to a user mobile device via a wireless connection...