Apple reportedly wants to monitor you while you sleep

Apple might be taking its health trackers a step further.

Over the weekend, Patently Apple discovered that Apple acquired a new patent from Tueo Health, Inc., a California-based health company, that may offer a new way to monitor an individual's health while they sleep.

Going beyond the mechanisms already present in Apple's phones and smart watches, this technology could use sensors placed in your pillows or under your mattress, ZDNet explained. Tueo Health already makes a non-intrusive sensor for asthma management in children, so the development of another device that may work for other medical conditions makes sense.

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Apple's acquiring of this patent gets more interesting when you take into account that it also acquired a company that makes a different sleep-tracking device, Beddit, in 2017. This device measures resting heart rate, total sleep time, and other factors. With the added patent, Apple may be looking to branch out Beddit's capabilities over time, or it may be looking to create its own device that can track health while users sleep. Learn more at ZDNet.