US Patent Issued to Movably on Oct. 20 for "Locking mechanism for an intelligent automated chair" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,676, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Movably Inc. (Lexington, Mass.).

"Locking mechanism for an intelligent automated chair" was invented by Mark Kapij (Lexington, Mass.), Jose Chavarria (Lexington, Mass.), Lorenz Klauser (Lexington, Mass.) and Stefan Stalder (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locking mechanism for a smart automated chair is provided. The chair is operable to move a seat between a horizontal seating position and a vertical downward standing position. When moving to the horizontal seating position, in some instances a user may sit on the seat before it has reached a locked horizontal position, this ...