US Patent Issued to Sleep Number on May 19 for "Flame resistant mattress cover" (Minnesota, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,964, issued on May 19, was assigned to Sleep Number Corp. (Minneapolis).

"Flame resistant mattress cover" was invented by Kyle Sullivan (Minneapolis), Chris Jones (Lexington, S.C.), Hummy Truh (Oak Grove, Minn.) and Eric Rose (Piedmont, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mattress includes a mattress cover. The mattress cover has a first textile, a second textile, a zipper, and a fire-resistant textile wrap. The zipper connects the first textile to the second textile. The fire-resistant textile wrap covers at least a portion of the zipper. A portion of the first textile and the zipper define a seam. The seam is inwardly separated fr...