ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,349, issued on March 3, was assigned to L&P Property Management Co. (Carthage, Mo.).
"Method of erecting box for insertion of roll packed mattress" was invented by Terrance L. Myers (Joplin, Mo.), Matthew C. Smallwood (Webb City, Mo.), James C. Kastler (Plantation, Fla.) and Michael A. James (Davie, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided for carrying out a method of erecting a flattened box, taping one end shut, inserted a roll packed mattress and taping the other end to complete the process. A controller controls the operation of the mostly automated process. An operator inputs certain parameters to control the...