Interactive air bed
CA 2449094 C · Owner: Mahoney, Paul J. · Inventors: Ostman, Robert; Mahoney, Paul J.; Lanz, Troy C. Sr.
Overview
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An air bed having a pump and a relief valve is operably connected with a control box. The control box is capable of being programmed or receiving, scripted information from a media file such that timed pressure changes may be made in the air bed by operation of the pump and the relief valve. These changes, are synchronized with a message being played by a media player. Thus the air bed interacts with a person lying on the bed. This interaction is used preferably in, a sales setting, to convey information to the person about the operation and features of the air bed.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed June 7, 2002 and granted April 26, 2011. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 7, 2022.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 7, 2024.
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