ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,040, issued on Feb. 17.
"Pillow" was invented by Noriomi Tsunoda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided with a bag body and a plurality of accommodated members housed therein, provided with a cervical spine support part to support cervical spine; an occipital support part to support an occiput, having a smaller height than the cervical spine support part and connected to the cervical spine support part; and two temporal head support parts to support a temporal head, connected to the cervical spine support part and arranged to put the occipital support part from both side in, a soft filler material filling a front pouch formin...