US Patent Issued to Sleep Number on Aug. 19 for "Bed having snore detection feature" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,379, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Sleep Number Corp. (Minneapolis).

"Bed having snore detection feature" was invented by Omid Sayadi (San Jose, Calif.), Ramazan Demirli (San Jose, Calif.) and Shawn Barr (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first bed that includes a first mattress, a first pressure sensor, a first acoustic sensor, and a first controller in data communication with the first pressure sensor and the first acoustic sensor. The first controller is configured to receive first pressure readings and first acoustic readings. The first controller is further configured to transmit the first pressure readings ...