US 12,070,161 B2
Portable support cushion
Rena Queen Heegaard, Eden Prairie, MN (US); and Andrew Bowen, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Rena Queen Heegaard, Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Filed on Nov. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/981,385.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/276,152, filed on Nov. 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0146446 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. A47K 13/24 (2006.01)
CPC A47K 13/24 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A toilet system comprising
a toilet including a bowl, a toilet seat pivotably arranged on a top rim of the bowl, and a toilet seat lid pivotably arranged above the toilet seat, the toilet seat lid including a bottom surface that faces the toilet seat in a lowered position when the toilet seat lid is resting on top of the toilet seat and a top surface opposite the bottom surface, where the toilet seat lid pivotally connects to the toilet seat at a first end of the toilet seat lid and the toilet seat lid has a second end opposite to the first end, and
a portable support cushion including
a cushion body including a front body surface configured to engage a body of a user and a rear body surface arranged to face opposite the front body surface,
a cushion cover surrounding the cushion body so as to enclose the cushion body therein, the cushion cover including a front cover surface adjacent the front body surface and a rear cover surface adjacent the rear body surface where the rear body surface contacts substantially all of either the upper or lower surface of the toilet seat lid, and
a support pouch coupled to the rear cover surface and changeable between an expanded arrangement and a collapsed arrangement, the support pouch comprising an elastic material, wherein, in the expanded arrangement, the support pouch is configured to be stretched and arranged around at least a portion of the toilet seat lid such that elastic force of the elastic material causes the support pouch to grasp the toilet seat lid so as to mount the portable support cushion on the toilet seat lid such that only the second end of the toilet seat lid is completely contained in the support pouch leaving the first end of the toilet seat cover outside the support pouch.