US Patent Issued to Purple Innovation on Sept. 23 for "Cushions with columns including firmness-defining features" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,433, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Purple Innovation LLC (Lehi, Utah).

"Cushions with columns including firmness-defining features" was invented by James Grutta (Draper, Utah), Dhyey Yogesh Acharya (Lehi, Utah), Jenan Ahmed Mostafa (Lehi, Utah), Chris Campagnoni (Park City, Utah) and Cayden Ackley (Lehi, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a cushion with at least one firmness feature are provided. A cushion may include an array of interconnected columns, each column of the array of interconnected columns having a height extending through a thickness of the cushion. At least one column of the array of in...