ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,267, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Mizuho Orthopedic Systems Inc. (Union City, Calif.).
"Prone face pillow" was invented by Stacy Diaz Perez (San Jose, Calif.), Stephan Schmid (San Francisco) and Donald Parker (Union City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a prone face pillow may include a body having a top surface, a bottom surface, a right-side surface, a left-side surface, and an internal cavity being open at the top surface and the bottom surface. In addition, the prone face pillow may include a right-side intubation tube channel having a non-horizontal pathway and a left-side intubation tube chann...