ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,355, issued on July 14, was assigned to J&D FURNITURE LLC (Great Neck, N.Y.).

"Reclining armchair with lifting seat and extending footrest" was invented by Janet Schwartz Feldman (Great Neck, N.Y.), Derek Feldman (Great Neck, N.Y.), Aviv Rottenberg (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), David Yassaf (Neve Yamin, Israel), Gilad Davidi (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Alex Padwa (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An armchair comprising a seat chassis supported on a support chassis by a pair of support columns, a chair back structure pivotally attached to a rear end of the seat chassis and to the support chassis, and a leg support structure pivo...