ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,721, issued on July 7, was assigned to P.R. Sella B.V. (Denekamp, Netherlands).

"Seat" was invented by Aloysius Gerhardus Huttenhuis (Denekamp, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a seat for supporting a bottom of a seated user, which seat includes a first seat part for supporting a first part of the bottom of the user and a second seat part for supporting a second part of the bottom of the user. The first seat part is elastically deformable and has a first modulus of elasticity. The second seat part has a second modulus of elasticity which is at least 10 times greater than the first modulus of elastici...