ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,590, issued on March 4, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Nursing bed system and nursing bed posture changing device" was invented by Yasuhiko Hashimoto (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nursing bed system includes a nursing bed and a nursing bed posture changing device. The nursing bed posture changing device includes care recipient data acquiring circuitry that acquires care recipient data containing at least one of voice data of a care recipient who lies on the nursing bed, and image data obtained by imaging the care recipient, bed posture information generating circuitry that generates bed posture ...