US Patent Issued to Sleep Number on June 23 for "Control system for a sleep environment" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,937, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sleep Number Corp..

"Control system for a sleep environment" was invented by Aran Patrick Brosnan (Edina, Minn.), Yi-ching Chen (Maple Grove, Minn.) and John McGuire (New Hope, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air bed system including a plurality of peripheral devices and a pump unit configured to adjust a firmness of an air mattress, the pump unit including a pump. The system further includes a controller configured to execute instructions that cause the pump unit to wirelessly pair with at least one of the plurality of peripheral devices. The pump unit is configured to receive at least...