ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,418, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Rock to Sleep Bed LLC (San Diego).
"Rocking bed that produces pitch, roll, translational and vibration movements" was invented by Radhakrishnan Srinivasan (San Diego) and Preetham K. Shivanna (Mysuru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rocking bed is disclosed which produces pitching (movement up and down relative to the sleeper), rolling (side to side relative to the sleeper), or translational (movement within the X-Y plane without changing orientation of the sleeper) motion to trigger sensory mismatch which aids the onset of sleep. One embodiment of the bed comprises a top frame supported b...