ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,847, issued on Sept. 29.
"Deployable chair" was invented by Dean Verhoeven (Wake Forest, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure provide deployable seating systems. In the context of a chair, the chair includes a plurality of links pivotably connected to one another in a sequence, wherein each link comprises a central portion extending between opposing ends of the link, wherein the plurality of links are configured to at least partially unroll in a first direction to transition the apparatus from an undeployed orientation to a deployed orientation; and the pivotable connection between respective links embod...