ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,865, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to OY SDA FINLAND LTD. (Vantaa, Finland).

"Method of forming an orthopedic mattress and orthopedic mattress" was invented by Vesa Tuominen (Vantaa, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for manufacturing an orthopedic mattress and to an orthopedic mattress. In the method, strategic measuring points of a future user of the mattress are determined. The springing is determined according to the build of the person using the mattress on the basis of a method in which the build dimensions of the mattress user are determined at strategic points."

The patent was filed o...