ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,314, issued on June 16, was assigned to MACK RIDES IP GMBH & Co. KG (Waldkirch, Germany).

"Seating furniture and seating furniture system, and method for operating a seating furniture system" was invented by Gunter Burger (Waldkirch, Germany), Hubert Schill (Elzach, Germany), Michael Moser (Elzach-Biederbach, Germany), Christian Fahrlander (Waldkirch, Germany) and Baldeep Singh (Lahr, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An item of seating furniture (2) includes a seating frame (11) with a running gear and with at least one seating assembly (12), along with a table assembly (14), a footrest (13), and a power storage system which su...