ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,834, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Keeson Technology Corporation Limited (Jiaxing, China).

"Foldable electric bed" was invented by Huafeng Shan (Zhejiang, China), Chuanxiang Ji (Zhejiang, China), Xiang Nie (Zhejiang, China) and Jian Wang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foldable electric bed includes an upper bed body, a lower bed body and a split-type fixing part. The two ends of the split-type fixing part are fixedly connected to the outer wall on the same side of the upper bed body and the lower bed body, respectively; the upper bed body may be folded at the split-type fixing part relative to the lower bed body...