ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,927, issued on April 7, was assigned to Sleep Technologies LLC (Harlingen, Texas).

"Adjustable sleeping system with force control" was invented by Robert B Duncan (Harlingen, Texas), Matthew Hayward (Richardson, Texas), Heather D. Benoit (Austin, Texas), Mark W. Foohey (Austin, Texas) and J. Kevin Gentry (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adjustable sleeping system with force control. At least one example embodiment is a method of operating a sleeping system, the method including: sensing an area of a sleeping surface of the sleeping system, the area upon which a person resides, the sensing by a bed controller communicativ...