US Patent Issued to Sleep Number on June 23 for "Controlling a mattress climate-control system based on thermal event" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,934, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sleep Number Corp..

"Controlling a mattress climate-control system based on thermal event" was invented by John Saycocie (Champlin, Minn.), Reuben Wesley Meline (Maple Grove, Minn.), Bruce William Gaunt (Minneapolis), Cory Lee Grabinger (Maple Grove, Minn.), Wade Daniel Palashewski (Andover, Minn.) and Nick Reynolds (Farmington, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and bed system for controlling a mattress climate-control system based on a thermal event. The bed system includes a mattress, a mattress climate-control system, a mechanical thermal detector, and a controller. The mattress ...