US Patent Issued to Sleep Number on Aug. 25 for "Bed having features for determining and modifying temperature of a sleep environment" (Minnesota, Wisconsin, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,362, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sleep Number Corp..

"Bed having features for determining and modifying temperature of a sleep environment" was invented by Gary N. Garcia Molina (Madison, Wis.), Yuki Hino (Dublin, Calif.), Dillon Pedersen (Saint Paul, Minn.), Shawn Barr (Berkeley, Calif.), Kody Lee Karschnik (Plymouth, Minn.), Farzad Siyahiani (San Jose, Calif.) and Cory Lee Grabinger (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distal-proximal temperature-gradient of a sleeper is determined. A bed has a mattress. Temperature sensors are in an array. Each sensor is configured to: sense surface temperature of the sleepe...