ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,443, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sleep Number Corp. (Minneapolis).
"Bed with pressure and force sensors" was invented by Ramazan Demirli (San Jose, Calif.), Yuki Hino (Dublin, Calif.) and Tyler Holmvik (Minneapolis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support platform supports a mattress. The support platform includes legs. Force sensors are coupled to the legs or to the support platform. The force sensors are configured to sense a force applied to each leg or support platform. A controller is configured to receive at least one force stream from at least one of the force sensors. The at least one force stream represents a force sen...