ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,825, issued on July 8.
"Adjustable bed sheet" was invented by Caleb Bledsoe (Sugar Land, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A material cover includes a swath of material of sufficient width and length to cover a form, a cable sheath generally disposed about the peripheral edge of the swath of material on one side of the material swath, an elastic cable having a diameter just smaller than the inside diameter of the cable sheath threaded through the cable sheath, a cinch mechanism disposed in the path of the cable sheath, the cinch mechanism having an inside diameter the same or just smaller than twice the diameter of the elastic cabl...