ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,919, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to PARAMOUNT BED Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Body state determination device, body support device, and body state determination method" was invented by Kenta Ohno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A body state determination device includes a detection unit that is configured to detect a plurality of pressure distributions formed by a body weight of a user, and a determination unit that is configured to determine a state of a body of the user by comparing the plurality of pressure distributions detected by the detection unit with each other."

The patent was filed on July 27, 2022, under Application No....