ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,177, issued on May 6, was assigned to NISCO Co. LTD (Jiangsu, China).

"Portable and adjustable bed having multiple bed sections with independent control" was invented by Wei Wang (Jiangsu, China), Fahuan Zhang (Jiangsu, China), Jian Xie (Jiangsu, China) and Yifan Mao (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adjustable bed includes a frame structure having a first frame, a second frame, and a pair of connection bars detachably connecting the first frame and the second frame to one another; a plurality of platforms having two or more back platforms disposed on the first frame and two or more lower limb platforms disposed on th...