US Patent Issued to Sleep Number on April 15 for "Bed system with star topology pump controller" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,369, issued on April 15, was assigned to Sleep Number Corp. (Minneapolis).

"Bed system with star topology pump controller" was invented by Rob Nunn (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Matthew Wayne Tilstra (Rogers, Minn.), Matthew Glen Hilden (Robbinsdale, Minn.) and Paul James Mahoney (Stillwater, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may comprise receiving, at a central controller, a command, from a remote control, to adjust a feature of a first component of an air mattress framework; relaying, from the central controller, the command to the first component; receiving from the first component at the central controller, an indication of t...