ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,268, issued on March 3, was assigned to Night and Day Furniture LLC.

"Furniture objects including a convertible desk bed" was invented by Joel Grossman (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) and Howard Porter (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A convertible furniture apparatus includes a frame; a convertible assembly connected to the frame via at least a pair of pivot points each connected to respective side panels of the frame, the convertible assembly configured to transition between a first position and a second position by pivoting about the pivot points; and a binding assembly configured to selectively cinch the convertib...