ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,686, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Sleep Number Corp. (Minneapolis).
"Diagnostics of bed and bedroom environment" was invented by Wade Daniel Palashewski (Andover, Minn.), Yi-ching Chen (Maple Grove, Minn.), Rob Nunn (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Robert Erko (Apple Valley, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system is configured to sense a pressure readings of an air-mattress. If the pressure readings are below a target pressure value representing a desired pressure for the air-mattress, the data processing system can transmit, to an air-pump, first instructions to increase the air pressure of the air mattress and d...