ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,810, issued on June 23, was assigned to FRAMERY OY (Tampere, Finland).
"Office pod" was invented by Markus Mattsson (Kiruna, Sweden), Jaakko Sairanen (Nokia, Finland), Antti Kinnunen (Tampere, Finland), Aliaksander Zavadski (Tampere, Finland), Lasse Karvinen (Tampere, Finland), Teemu Niskanen (Lempaala, Finland), Juho Pukkila (Tampere, Finland) and Niilo Ahonen (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An office pod enclosing a soundproof workspace inside of the pod, and including a front load-bearing frame, a rear load-bearing frame, and a skin layer attached in between the front and rear load-bearing frames so as to provide ...