ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,905, issued on May 27, was assigned to PARAMOUNT BED Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Bed apparatus and patient detection method" was invented by Hisao Morimura (Tokyo), Makoto Tanaka (Tokyo) and Shinsuke Watanabe (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bed apparatus includes: a mattress mounted on a bed body; and, first cells arranged on both left and right sides in a longitudinal direction of the bed body and is configured to change the body position of a patient on the mattress by inflating the first cells alternately. When the first cells on the left and right sides are inflated, and when a difference in pressure between the first cells on the...