US 2,011,010,014 · Filed 2008-11-14
The Smart Bedroom Patent That Learns When You Sleep
Imagine a bedroom that watches how well you're sleeping and then automatically adjusts the temperature, light, or sound to help you sleep better. This patent covers a system that collects data about your sleep quality and your room's environment, analyzes it all, and makes tweaks on its own.
The plain-English version
What it protects
The claim covers a complete system for monitoring and controlling bedroom conditions to improve sleep. What's protected here is the combination of collecting environmental data (temperature, humidity, light, sound), gathering sleep data (how restless you are, how long you sleep), analyzing both streams together to find problems, and then automatically adjusting things in the room—like turning down the AC or dimming lights—based on what the analysis finds helps that specific person sleep better.
Why it matters
This patent matters because it protects the core idea of a smart, self-learning bedroom—one that doesn't just let you manually adjust things, but actually watches your sleep patterns and figures out what environmental changes help you personally. For a mattress and furniture company like Kingsdown, this kind of patent creates a competitive moat: it lets them build mattresses and bed systems that talk to smart home controls and get smarter over time about what each sleeper needs, rather than selling one-size-fits-all products.
Real-world use
A connected smart bed that monitors your tossing and turning, notices you sleep worse when it's above 68 degrees, and quietly tells your thermostat to cool the room down without you having to program anything.
Original USPTO abstract
A system for controlling a bedroom environment includes an environmental data collector configured to collect environmental data relating to the bedroom environment; a sleep data collector configured to collect sleep data relating to a person's state of sleep; an analysis unit configured to analyze the collected environmental data and the collected sleep data and to determine an adjustment of the bedroom environment that promotes sleep of the person; and a controller configured to effect the adjustment of the bedroom environment. A method for controlling a bedroom environment includes collecting environmental data relating to the bedroom environment; collecting sleep data relating to a person's state of sleep; analyzing the collected environmental data and the collected sleep data; determining an adjustment to the bedroom environment that promotes sleep; and communicating the adjustment to a device that effects the bedroom environment.
Patent details
- Publication number
- US 2,011,010,014
- Filing date
- 2008-11-14
- Grant date
- Application — not yet granted
- Assignee
- Kingsdown, Inc.
- Inventor(s)
- OEXMAN ROBERT D., SCOTT DAVID B.
- CPC class
- A61M21/02
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