ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,440, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Regalo International LLC (Burnsville, Minn.).
"Travel nursery apparatus" was invented by Shannon R. Bickel (Lakeville, Minn.), Heidi C. Leighton (Shorewood, Minn.) and Kasey L. Pipo (Elko New Market, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel nursery apparatus having a scissoring frame defining four faces of a parallelepiped. A flexible receptacle is engaged to the scissoring frame where the flexible receptacle defines five faces of a parallelepiped. An infant bassinet may be engaged to the scissoring frame and depend into the flexible receptacle, with a floor of the infant bassinet being ...