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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2010
Vaughn W. North, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Vaughn W. North, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Family Concepts TJH, LLC, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
A device and method for enabling an individual located on a bed to sustain a side-sleeping orientation on either a left or right side. The device comprises a light weight, elongate pillow having a longitudinal axis and being configured to concurrently rest at a back side of the individual and an adjacent surface of a bed when reclined in a side-sleeping orientation on the bed. The pillow includes a flexible attachment structure which is positioned along a longitudinal edge of the pillow to secure the pillow to the individual's bed clothing. The attachment structure provides sufficient flexibility to allow the pillow to rotate with respect to and rest against the individual's back to a laterally offset and suspended, partial captured configuration in general alignment with the individual's spine and in concurrent contact with the bed surface to prevent a supine sleeping position.