US Patent Issued to Sleep Number on July 22 for "Bed system having controller for an air mattress" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,342, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sleep Number Corp. (Minneapolis).

"Bed system having controller for an air mattress" was invented by Wade Daniel Palashewski (Andover, Minn.), Robert Erko (Apple Valley, Minn.), Robert Nunn (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Gordan Redzic (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include a bed having a mattress, a sensor, and the data processing device. The sensor is configured to sense a feature of the mattress and transmit readings to a data processing device. The data processing device includes a processor and is configured to receive the readings from the sensor and determine if the r...