US Patent Issued to Sleep Number on Feb. 24 for "Bed system for detecting snore side" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,916, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Sleep Number Corp. (Minneapolis).

"Bed system for detecting snore side" was invented by Kwanghyun Sohn (San Jose, Calif.), Saeed Babaeizadeh (Arlington, Mass.) and Yong Li (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document generally describes bed systems for automatically determining which side of a bed a detected snore originates from, where two sleepers are in the bed. A bed system can include sensors for collecting acoustic readings and pressure readings, on respective sides of the bed. The collected sensor readings can be processed by a computer system to determine whether a sno...