US Patent Issued to Sleep Number on July 14 for "Noise reduction and cancellation system for beds" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,959, issued on July 14, was assigned to Sleep Number Corp..

"Noise reduction and cancellation system for beds" was invented by Carli Hill (Oxnard, Calif.), Joseph Ermalovich (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Lori MacLachlan (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are bed systems with headboards having a main headboard portion, a left wing attached to a first lateral edge and a right wing attached to a second lateral edge of the main headboard portion, and sound insulation material and insulation supports in each of the main headboard portion and the left and right wings. The insulation supports can be spaced apart to form cav...