ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,946, issued on June 24.

"System and method for providing a motorized and modular automated high-resolution mattress and mattress-bed assembly for prevention and healing bed sores" was invented by Seyed Mohammadreza Jafari (Unionville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a modular mattress assembly that can prevent the appearance of bed sores and can heal the developed sores by spreading the weight of the body on the mattress using an array of motorized support. The modular mattress is an array of small cushionettes each placed on top of a linear motion mechanism. Each cushionette can be adjusted in height i...