US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 6 for "Air mattress with automatic pitch adjustment" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,180, issued on May 6, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Air mattress with automatic pitch adjustment" was invented by Stuart R. Wuerthele (Saline, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adjustable air mattress includes a plurality of air chambers having a sleeping surface, an electronic control unit, and an air pump communicatively coupled to the electronic control unit and fluidly coupled to the plurality of air chambers. A plurality of air valves are communicatively coupled to the electronic control unit and are configured to permit ...