US Patent Issued to BOB BARKER on Sept. 29 for "Sheet assembly for use with a mattress in a correctional facility" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,868, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to BOB BARKER COMPANY INC. (Fuquay-Varina, N.C.).

"Sheet assembly for use with a mattress in a correctional facility" was invented by Gerrad Stephen Allison (Angier, N.C.) and Lena Renee Butterfield (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet assembly for use with a mattress in a correctional institution. The sheet assembly includes a mattress section with a pair of overlapping sheets that are connected together along at least two sides and that form an interior space sized to contain the mattress and a cover section that includes a single sheet. A seam extends along a common side of each...