Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Devices and methods to protect neonates during bed-sharing and co-sleeping
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Application No.: US16505999Application Date: 2019-07-09
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Publication No.: US10531748B2Publication Date: 2020-01-14
- Inventor: Juan Nepomuc Walterspiel
- Applicant: Juan Nepomuc Walterspiel
- Agency: Borson Law Group PC
- Agent D. Benjamin Borson
- Main IPC: A47D15/00
- IPC: A47D15/00 ; A47D7/01 ; A47D7/00 ; A47D7/04

Abstract:
This disclosure provides designs for inexpensive devices that can be sturdy, pleasing to the eye, light in weight, and attractively padded, to form an enclosure around an infant or neonate that is open at its bottom. These devices protect neonates from injury during bed-sharing or co-sleeping with other individuals. These enclosures include roll-over bars to protect infants and neonates from being injured or asphyxiated by weight of a co-sleeper inadvertently moving on top of a roll-over bar. Devices can be shaped to allow for easy placement and removal of the infant, or to place the enclosure with the respective roll-over bar(s) over an infant. Roll-over bar(s) can be hinged or intercalated with pivots to deflect frame base portions when an infant body part finds itself accidentally caught under them. The rotation can be limited to an angle that still allows for the roll-over bar to be above an infant's body when frame base portion(s) are raised above the sleeping surface by the pressure and forces exerted on a roll-over bar when a co-sleeper inadvertently moves over a roll-over bar.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190350381A1 Devices and Methods to Protect Neonates During Bed-Sharing and Co-Sleeping Public/Granted day:2019-11-21
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