US Patent Issued to GEVAN on July 14 for "Reclining seat" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,543, issued on July 14, was assigned to GEVAN S.P.A. (Nola, Italy).

"Reclining seat" was invented by Alberto Veneruso (Nola, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reclining seat comprises a fixed supporting frame, a reclining backrest, and a damping device providing, at lower ends of frame elements forming the seat frame, a lever which is revolvingly hinged on a respective pin integral to the supporting frame and which forms a rocker arm which rotates by a prefixed angle from a first position, corresponding to the reclining backrest in erected position, to a second position, corresponding to the reclining backrest in reclined positi...