US Patent Issued to Sleep Number on Oct. 14 for "Bed system with device charging storage pockets" (Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,037, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sleep Number Corp. (Minneapolis).

"Bed system with device charging storage pockets" was invented by Antony Kirk (Minnetonka, Minn.), Joseph Ermalovich (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Carli Hill (Oxnard, Calif.) and Lori MacLachlan (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are bed systems with a foundation having first and second side rails opposite each other and a pocket integrated into an exterior side of at least the first side rail at a distance from a head section of a mattress that is less than a distance from a foot section of the mattress. The pocket can include an inner pocket sma...