ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,733, issued on July 29.

"Effortless duvet cover" was invented by Lola Ogedengbe (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A duvet cover for housing an assembly includes a top fabric panel and a bottom fabric panel that together form a flexible fabric envelope for receiving the duvet, wherein head edges of the top fabric panel and the bottom fabric panel are joined together and may form a permanently closed head edge. Side edges of the top fabric panel and the bottom fabric panel and foot edges of the top fabric panel and the bottom fabric panel edges may be equipped with closable fastening devices to engage each other thereby defin...