US Patent Issued to Formway Furniture on June 2 for "Chair and components" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,356, issued on June 2, was assigned to Formway Furniture Ltd. (Lower Hutt, New Zealand).

"Chair and components" was invented by Kent Wallace Parker (Lower Hutt, New Zealand), Martyn Walter Goodwin Collings (Wellington, New Zealand), Wayne Douglas O'Hara (Lower Hutt, New Zealand), Aaron Michael Young (Lower Hutt, New Zealand), Paul James Stevenson (Wellington, New Zealand), Gavin James Bateman (Wellington, New Zealand) and Kai Xi Lin (Wellington, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chair support shell has an integral back portion, seat portion, and joining portion between the back portion and the seat portion. At least a major...