US Patent Issued to Purple Innovation on April 21 for "Smart bed with mattress that responds to physical inputs" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,995, issued on April 21, was assigned to Purple Innovation LLC (Lehi, Utah).

"Smart bed with mattress that responds to physical inputs" was invented by Thomas Andrew Bennett (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart bed with a mattress that detects the one or more physical inputs, identifies at least one function corresponding to each physical input, and responds to each physical input by executing the at least one function. The physical input may be provided as a tap, pat, slap, stomp, or kick on a surface of the mattress. One or more sensors of the mattress may detect each physical input. A processor of the smart bed ...