US Patent Issued to Sleep Number on Aug. 4 for "Sensor strips for beds" (Minnesota, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,985, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Sleep Number Corp..

"Sensor strips for beds" was invented by Kody Lee Karschnik (Plymouth, Minn.), Dillon Pedersen (Saint Paul, Minn.), Eric Rose (Piedmont, S.C.), Wade Daniel Palashewski (Andover, Minn.) and Daniel VerBockel (St. Louis Park, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mattress system can include a foam layer positioned proximate a mattress top and having a head end, a foot end, and opposite lateral ends, a mattress core positioned under the foam layer, and a sensor strip. The sensor strip can include a carrier strip and a plurality of sensors attached to the carrier strip and spaced ...