Patents by Inventor Susan DeFranco

Susan DeFranco has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240082532
    Abstract: One general aspect includes a bed having a mattress. The system also includes one or more sensors configured to: sense physiological phenomenon of a user of the bed and generate one or more data streams based on the sensing of the physiological phenomenon of the user. The system also includes a computing system that may include at least one processor and computer memory, the computing-system configured to: receive the one or more data streams and generate, using the one or more data streams, an insomnia-risk metric for the user reflective of risk that the user will or is experiencing symptoms may include with insomnia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Shawn Barr, Vidhya Chellamuthu, Susan DeFranco, Gary N. Garcia Molina, Brandon Gorski, Dmytro Guzenko, Trevor Winger
  • Publication number: 20220175600
    Abstract: A bed has a mattress. One or more sensors are configured to sense one or more physical phenomena of a sleeper on the bed and generate data signals based on the sensed physical phenomena; and send, to a computing system, the data signals. A computing system comprising one or more processors and computer memory. The computing system is configured to: receive the data signals; generate, from data signals of a sleep-session of the sleeper, a feature vector of features, each feature having a feature value that represents one of the physical phenomena; and classify the sleeper into a classified physical state for the sleep session based on the feature vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Gary N. Garcia Molina, Kevin Monette, Cristina Jocson, Dmytro Guzenko, Shawn Barr, Susan DeFranco, Faisal Mushtaq, Rajasi Mills