US Patent Issued to OKAMURA on Oct. 20 for "Load-supporting structure for chair and chair" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,680, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to OKAMURA Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Load-supporting structure for chair and chair" was invented by Hiroshi Masunaga (Yokohama, Japan), Syunsuke Ishimaru (Yokohama, Japan), Syouichi Izawa (Yokohama, Japan) and Shinpei Totsuka (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load-supporting structure for a chair includes a receiving surface component provided with a curved receiving surface configured to receive a load from a seated person; a load supporter supporting the receiving surface component from a back side of the receiving surface; and a curved shape-changing portion configured to change...