US Patent Issued to Sleep Number on Aug. 11 for "Using force sensors in bed systems" (American, Bosnian, Herzegovinian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,236, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sleep Number Corp..

"Using force sensors in bed systems" was invented by Robert Dean Johnston (Lakeville, Minn.), Gary N. Garcia Molina (DeForest, Wis.), Cory Lee Grabinger (Maple Grove, Minn.), Ajdin Mulaosmanovic (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Megha Rajam Rao (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bed system includes a support platform and a plurality of legs supporting the support platform. Each leg of the plurality of legs includes a force sensor that is configured to sense a force applied to the leg."

The patent was filed on Nov. 14, 2023, under Application No. 18/389,...