US Patent Issued to Sleep Number on June 23 for "Home automation with features to improve sleep" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,938, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sleep Number Corp..

"Home automation with features to improve sleep" was invented by Omid Sayadi (San Jose, Calif.) and Farzad Siyahjani (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bed has a mattress. A sensor is configured to sense sleep readings of a user sleeping on the bed. An automation controller is configured to transmit the sleep readings to a cloud service. Hardware hosting the cloud service is configured to compare the sleep readings with trend data in order to generate adjustments to the user's sleep environment."

The patent was filed on Aug. 16, 2024, under Application No...