US Patent Issued to AMERICAN TEXTILE on June 2 for "Expandable pillow" (Pennsylvania, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,375, issued on June 2, was assigned to AMERICAN TEXTILE COMPANY INC. (Duquesne, Pa.).

"Expandable pillow" was invented by Timothy Confer (Duquesne, Pa.), Thanhhoa Nguyen (Duquesne, Pa.), Patrick Seiffert (Duquesne, Pa.) and H Jay Spiegel (Mount Vernon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pillow includes first and second panels that are assembled together by a peripheral seam going all the way around the pillow. A zipper is provided that extends substantially the length of the pillow in the preferred embodiment although, if desired, the zipper can extend substantially the entire width of the pillow. The zipper is spaced from the perip...