US Patent Issued to Haworth on July 14 for "Seat back for an office chair" (Michigan, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,952, issued on July 14, was assigned to Haworth Inc. (Holland, Mich.).

"Seat back for an office chair" was invented by Craig Brekke (Rockford, Mich.), William Reck (Holland, Mich.), Jacob Cammenga (Hudsonville, Mich.), Weston Boerckel (Hudsonville, Mich.), Andras Kupfermann (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Angelina Lullie (Chicago) and Mark J. Sherman (Zeeland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat back for an office chair is efficiently manufactured and assembled. The seat back includes a tensioner for tensioning a flexible support on the structural frame. The tensioner is connected between the lower edge of the flexible support and the...