US Patent Issued to Sleep Number on June 23 for "Bed having features for controlling heating of a bed to reduce health risk of a sleeper" (Minnesota, Wisconsin, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,933, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sleep Number Corp. (Minneapolis).

"Bed having features for controlling heating of a bed to reduce health risk of a sleeper" was invented by Gary N. Garcia Molina (Madison, Wis.), Yuki Hino (Dublin, Calif.), Dillon Pedersen (Saint Paul, Minn.), Shawn Barr (San Jose, 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: "Temperature sensors are configured to sense a temperature for the sleeper and transmit temperature readings. A controller is configured to receive temperature readings; and send ...