US Patent Issued on April 14 for "Electric reclining chair with anti-pinch protection" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,234, issued on April 14.

"Electric reclining chair with anti-pinch protection" was invented by Yueh-Cheng Tsay (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric reclining chair has a base, a linkage mechanism, a leg rest mount, and a control module. The linkage mechanism is movably mounted to the base and connected to a driver. The leg rest mount is pivotally connected to the linkage mechanism. The control module has a sensor module and a control unit. When the linkage mechanism and the leg rest mount are being folded by the driver, if an object is under the leg rest mount and abuts the leg rest mount, the leg rest m...