ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,189, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Plusmofa International Ltd. (Miaoli, Taiwan).

"Ready-to-assemble bed" was invented by Yu-Wei Chung (Miaoli, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ready-to-assemble bed includes a bed base, a replaceable resilient cushion, a contact pad, and a headboard. The replaceable resilient cushion is placed on the bed base and has a first encasement that has spring-based resilient chunks removably filled therein. The contact pad is placed on the replaceable resilient cushion and detachably combined with the replaceable resilient cushion. The contact pad includes a second encasement that has a support me...