Apple is continuing to look at ways of using its smart mattress technology together with temperature sensors to identify the start of menstrual cycles, and also as a measure of general health.
It doesn’t look like the most comfortable sleeping position, but this illustration from the patent is meant to show that sensors can be unobtrustive
Ever since Apple acquired the Beddit sleep-tracking firm in 2017, it has been researching ways to improve that tracking. Most recently, that has resulted in the Sleep Score feature of Apple Watch, but Apple hasn’t given up on using bed-based technology.
It hasn’t produced an in-bed tracking system, but it has already had two patents granted for the technology. It’s just that one of the two has now been granted again.
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