ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,320, issued on April 8.
"Head pillow apparatus with neck support, shoulder cavity and height adjustability" was invented by George A. S. Kitson (Winnipeg, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel head pillow, at a top-frontal region thereof, includes a forwardly protruding neck-support ledge of overlying relation to an undercut shoulder cavity. A substantially flat plateau at the head pillow's topside extends rearwardly from a transitional top-front corner of the neck-support ledge, which curves downwardly to a front face of the neck-support ledge. Rearwardly of the plateau, the topside of the pillow also features a downwardly a...