US Patent Issued to Sleep Number on Jan. 20 for "Air mattress with features for determining ambient temperature" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,411, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Sleep Number Corp. (Minneapolis).

"Air mattress with features for determining ambient temperature" was invented by Kody Lee Karschnik (Plymouth, Minn.), Gary N. Garcia Molina (Madison, Wis.) and Cory Lee Grabinger (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bladder pressure readings of bladder pressure inside an air bladder of a mattress are received for a particular time. Barometric pressure readings of barometric pressure in an ambient environment outside the mattress are received for the particular time. The bladder pressure and the barometric pressure readings are used as input to an...