ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,271, issued on March 3, was assigned to Levitation Sciences LLC (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

"Four-in-one mattress management system" was invented by William John Scarleski (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A four-in-one mattress management system and method is disclosed for facilitating various tasks associated with beds of all sizes including making beds; rotating mattresses; holding a bed skirt in place while a mattress is rotated; installing or removing and re-installing a mattress, for example, in order to replace a bed skirt. The system includes an active mode and a passive mode. In an active mode, all four tasks ...