US Patent Issued to Sleep Number on Aug. 26 for "Bed having physiological event detecting feature" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,906, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Sleep Number Corp. (Minneapolis).

"Bed having physiological event detecting feature" was invented by Omid Sayadi (San Jose, Calif.), Farzad Siyahjani (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Ramazan Demirli (San Jose, Calif.).

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