US Patent Issued to FUJI WORLD on Oct. 6 for "Care bed" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,879, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to FUJI WORLD Co. Ltd. (Toyota, Japan).

"Care bed" was invented by Yuichi Ando (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the invention is to provide a care bed that allows a care recipient to easily raise himself/herself and stand up on the floor or the like from a state of lying on the bed. The care bed of the present invention has a bed body having a first support part for supporting a lower body and a second support part for supporting an upper body. The bed body is divided into at least the first support part and a second support part in a width direction of the bed body, and th...