ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,498, issued on May 13, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Acoustic chair cove" was invented by Christine Jean Wu (San Francisco), Shokofeh Darbari (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shane Anton Myrbeck (Los Angeles), Caitlin Emily Riggs (San Francisco), Jack Godfrey Wood (San Francisco), Andy Furner (London) and Harc Lee (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic chair cove includes a lower cove mountable on a chair such that a first wing of the lower cove is positioned at a first side of the chair, a second wing of the lower cove is positioned at a second side of the chair, and a top portion of the lower cove is position...