ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,205, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Remacro Technology Co. Ltd. (Suzhou, China).

"Device for retracting seat leg at angle, seat support, and seat unit" was invented by Xiaohong Li (Suzhou, China), Xiaoqiang Zhang (Suzhou, China), Zhanzheng Lv (Suzhou, China) and Yuankun Li (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for retracting seat leg at angle, including a leg assembly hinged to a front end of a seat frame mount, both the footrest driving link and the footrest driven link of the leg assembly are hinged to a front end of the seat frame mount respectively, an end of the first footrest link is hinged to the footrest ...