US Patent Issued to PERMOBIL on Aug. 11 for "Adjustable seat sling for a wheelchair" (Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,603, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to PERMOBIL INC. (Lebanon, Tenn.).

"Adjustable seat sling for a wheelchair" was invented by Andrew Dominguez (Thompson Station, Tenn.), Debra Masters (Longhorne, Pa.), Jared Rixon (Port Orchard, Wash.) and Merritt Penticoff (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sling seat assembly for a wheelchair includes a sling including a sitting surface, a first mounting portion positioned adjacent to the sitting surface, and a plurality of straps extending from the sitting surface, and a second mounting portion includes a plurality of rings, each of the plurality of rings is configured to receiv...