ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,239, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Purple Innovation LLC (Lehi, Utah).
"Sleep sequence initiation for a smart bed" was invented by Thomas Andrew Bennett (Irvine, Calif.) and James Grutta (Draper, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart bed automatically initiates a sleep sequence upon detecting the presence of an individual in a sleeping position on a sleep surface of the smart bed. Such a smart bed may include a mattress that defines the sleep surface, at least one sensor associated with the sleep surface, and a processor that communicates with the at least one sensor and controls one or more functions of the mattress. Init...