US Patent Issued to Sleep Number on June 24 for "Speech-controlled health monitoring systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,841, issued on June 24, was assigned to Sleep Number Corp. (Minneapolis).

"Speech-controlled health monitoring systems" was invented by Omid Sayadi (San Jose, Calif.), Steven Jay Young (Los Gatos, Calif.), Carl Hewitt (San Jose, Calif.) and Alan Luckow (Ben Lomond, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for speech-controlled or speech-enabled health monitoring of a subject are described. A device includes a substrate configured to support a subject, a plurality of non-contact sensors configured to capture acoustic signals and force signals with respect to the subject, an audio interface configured to communicate wi...