ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,111, issued on April 29, was assigned to SENIAH Innovations Group LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Modular mattress system and method" was invented by Charles M Haines (Calgary, Canada), Charles R B Haines (Calgary, Canada), Brandon J Bain (Katy, Texas) and Stephen M Ferguson (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As per an embodiment of the disclosure, a minimum of one module is modularized in one of the following mattress layer: comfort, contour, or support. This modularization entails at least one module per side of the mattress. In particular configurations, all modules within a respective layer may have an identical size in length, wid...