ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,051, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SNBR Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Bed system having central controller using pressure data" was invented by Wade Daniel Palashewski (Andover, Minn.), Rob Nunn (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Matthew Wayne Tilstra (Rogers, Minn.), Steven Jay Young (Los Gatos, Calif.), Carl Hewitt (San Jose, Calif.) and Yuri Zhovnirovsky (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, this disclosure describes a method including receiving, at a central controller of an air mattress system, a plurality of air pressure value, determining a plurality of average values using the plurality of the received air pressure...