US Patent Issued to Sleep Number on June 16 for "Adjustable mattress foundation" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,319, issued on June 16, was assigned to Sleep Number Corp..

"Adjustable mattress foundation" was invented by Bruce William Gaunt (Albertville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foundation for a bed system can include an actuator, a deck mechanism operably related to the actuator so as to be actuated between raised and lowered positions in response to actuation by the actuator, and a controller operably connected to the actuator and configured to drive the actuator to actuate the deck mechanism between a lower position and an upper position. The deck mechanism can be configured to move to a service position that is further than t...