US Patent Issued to Sleep Number on March 3 for "Bed having sensor fusing features useful for determining snore and breathing parameters" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,526, issued on March 3, was assigned to Sleep Number Corp. (Minneapolis).

"Bed having sensor fusing features useful for determining snore and breathing parameters" was invented by Ramazan Demirli (San Jose, Calif.), Omid Sayadi (San Jose, Calif.) and Shawn Barr (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mattress supports a user. An acoustic sensor is configured to sense acoustic energy. A pressure sensor senses pressure applied to the mattress. A controller is configured to receive an acoustic stream from the acoustic sensor. The controller is further configured to receive a pressure stream from the pressure sensor. The contr...