17 Intellectual property of the project

Intellectual Property Protection

 

On 02.07.2024, two provisional patent applications were filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO):

 

1.Rocking bed and rocking device (Provisional Application 63/666,724).

 

A variety of rocking bed and furniture rocking bed designs (including a rocking bed for an armchair, a rocking bed for a convertible recliner chair, a rocking bed for a Nap Pod) are described, in which vertical plane-parallel motion is the basic design, two- and three-degree-of-freedom designs have been developed, and designs with a support base equipped with swivel wheels that add three degrees of freedom.

 

Distinctive features of rocking bed and rocking furniture are the absence of any attachment to the floor, walls or ceiling.

 

In the description of the rocking bed and rocking furniture various types of power devices are indicated: rotary electric motor, linear electric motor, electrically driven hydraulic pump, electromechanical hydraulic accumulator, electrically driven hydraulic gas accumulator.

 

 The description of the rocking bed and rocking furniture includes various types of movable substrate to which the mattress or seat of the furniture is attached from above: a flat, non-transformable shaped movable substrate, or a transformable shaped movable substrate.

 

Various mechanical and hydraulic power actuators are described for rocking beds and rocking furniture, and various designs of rocking beds and rocking furniture with different arrangements of power units and power actuators are disclosed.

 

Designs have been developed in which rocking beds and rocking furniture can be equipped with swiveling electric wheels powered by electric batteries.

 

The provisional patent application for the rocking bed and rocking furniture is substantial in length (occupying more than 100 pages of textual description, containing more than 50 figures) and is the basis for filing several non-provisional patent applications with the USPTO.

 

The designs presented in the provisional patent application, “Rocking Bed and Rocking Device,” differ substantially from the designs disclosed in known patents-in-suit and in published patent applications.

 

Patent searches, regularly conducted by specialized patent companies in the Russian Federation, did not reveal similar designs of the rocking devices on the Internet, in the USA patent database (USPTO), in the Espacenet and Patentscope patent databases.

 

2.Sensory stimulation device and methods (Provisional Application 63/666,727).

 

A device based on a rocking bed with synchronized sound and light effects is described, which has the ability to simultaneously affect the four human senses - vestibular, touch, hearing and vision.

 

It describes a method of forming a conditioned respiratory reflex in a user by means of multisensory influence, a method providing realization of the conditioned respiratory reflex at falling asleep and in sleep (in sleep phases N1, N2, N3), a method of increasing the comfort of a user at falling asleep and reducing the period of falling asleep, a method of increasing the quality of sleep - increasing the period of deep slow sleep N3, a method of stopping respiratory insufficiency (snoring and apnea) in sleep, and a related method of preventing spontaneous awakening in sleep.

 

The device and methods of synchronous multisensory influence described in the provisional patent application involve all human sensory organs, which can be precisely and dosedly influenced when falling asleep and during sleep (in a household consumer device it is obviously difficult to precisely influence the sense of smell and taste). 

 

A system and method for forming an individual multisensory environment comfortable for falling asleep, sleeping, waking and sex, including sound effects, visual effects, temperature (touch) effects, vestibular effects is described.

 

A method of obtaining information about physiological and psycho-emotional parameters of a user preparing to go to sleep using a portable device receiving EEG of the user and sensors receiving physiological parameters of the user, a method of coordinated or synchronous multisensory influence on the user preparing to sleep and falling asleep to reduce the time and increase the comfort of falling asleep is described.

 

A method of obtaining information about physiological and psycho-emotional parameters of a user before waking up, a method of coordinated or synchronized multisensory influence on a user during waking up for increasing comfort and reducing stress when waking up is described. A method of synchronized multisensory exposure of users to improve sensory relationships is described.

 

The system and method of forming an individualized multisensory environment described in the provisional patent application involve all human sensory organs that can be precisely influenced before falling asleep, while falling asleep and during sleep - vestibular apparatus, touch, vision and hearing - with the exception of smell and taste.

 

 The provisional patent application “Device and Methods for Synchronized Sensory Stimulation” is the first patent application in the field. The method indicated therein for creating a personalized multi-sensory environment that is comfortable for falling asleep, sleeping, waking and sensory relationships has similar invention patents relating to creating a personalized outdoor environment that lacks exposure to the vestibular apparatus and a rocking bed device.

 

In addition to the above mentioned provisional patent applications, Ilya Voronin received Russian invention patent No. 2755464 dated 16.09.2021 “Transformable Rocking Mattress”, applied for invention patent No.2020110924 dated 16.03. 2020 “ Rocking mattress” (with flat bed substrate), filed two patent applications with the International Patent Organization (IPO) under the procedure of International Patent Cooperation (PCT) - rocking mattress PCT/RU2021/050035 dated 16. 02.02.2021 and transformable rocking mattress PCT/RU2021/050035 dated 16.02.2021, “genetically related” to the provisional patent application in the USPTO “Rocking Bed and Rocking Device” (Provisional Application 63/666,724) and proving Ilya Voronin's priority.

 

The transfer of patent applications from provisional to non-provisional status to protect the intellectual property of the project are the first priority activities to be implemented during the external financing of the project.