ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,490, issued on June 3, was assigned to Broadway Holdings IV LLC (Monroe, N.J.).

"Bag for transporting mattresses" was invented by Steve Kohn (Short Hills, N.J.) and Amy Rigazio (Farmingdale, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bag used to transport and store a mattress comprising a bag sized to completely envelope the mattress. The bag has an opening in one or more ends or one or more sides for the mattress to be placed inside. A graspable area has graspable points applied to the outer surface of one or more ends, one or more side, or a top or bottom surface of the bag."

The patent was filed on Jan. 18, 2021, under Application No. ...