ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,798, issued on July 8.
"Vibrating bed" was invented by Thomas Staudacher (Geebung, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are embodiments of a vibrating bed which allows a particular person to induce a customized vibrational pattern that they find particularly therapeutic. In certain embodiments, the bed has a water mattress, a carriage for the mattress, a hardwood frame to support the carriage, a transducer for producing different vibrational patterns in the mattress, a vibrotactile amplifier for controlling the transducer, a computer for controlling the amplifier and software on the computer for producing sounds of parti...