US Patent Issued to Ideal on Aug. 18 for "Anti-tip inflatable chair" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,207, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Ideal LLC (Asheville, N.C.).

"Anti-tip inflatable chair" was invented by William Lucas Hopkins (Asheville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Inflatable anti-tip articles and methods of making and using embodiments of the inflatable anti-tip articles, wherein the inflatable anti-tip article includes an inflatable body having a first face opposite a second face joined at a body periphery defining an interior chamber, wherein upon inflation the inflated article includes one or more bend angles in the first face and/or the second face which define a rotation axis along the points of contact of th...