ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,948, issued on July 1, was assigned to ASAHI KASEI K.K. (Tokyo).

"Elastic mattress and electrolyzer" was invented by Mamoru Matsuoka (Tokyo) and Kazuyuki Tsuchida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elastic mattress being conductive and including a plurality of hill parts and valley parts, which have been formed by a curved state of the elastic mattress, wherein the hill parts include concave parts having depths smaller than heights of the hill parts, and the valley parts include projections having heights smaller than depths of the valley parts."

The patent was filed on March 18, 2020, under Application No. 17/439,133.

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