ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,327, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Trident Ltd. (Barnala, India).

"Fitted sheet for mattress" was invented by Abhishek Gupta (Ludhiana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fitted sheet that can be used for mattresses of varying thicknesses, and which reduces or eliminates bunching and wrinkling of the sheet fabric at corners of the mattress. The invention includes a fitted sheet configured for encasing a mattress, including a top panel portion and a plurality of side panel portions. Each of the plurality of side panel portions includes a respective side panel portion bottom surface that is configured to conform to a bottom surf...