ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,924, issued on April 7, was assigned to PARAMOUNT BED Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Motorized furniture" was invented by Shinnosuke Kubota (Tokyo), Toshihide Shiino (Tokyo), Tadahiko Sakamaki (Tokyo) and Shunsuke Yokoo (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motorized furniture according to embodiments of the present invention includes a control unit. The control unit transitions to a first falling asleep operation at second time where the elapse of time since first time, where the sleep of a user of the motorized furniture is detected, is equal to or larger than a first time threshold. The control unit performs a second falling asleep operatio...