US Patent Issued to Steelcase on March 24 for "Seating arrangement" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,234, issued on March 24, was assigned to Steelcase Inc. (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Seating arrangement" was invented by James Ludwig (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Nickolaus William Charles Deevers (Holland, Mich.), Kurt Heidmann (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Bruce Michael Smith (East Grand Rapids, Mich.) and Mark Spoelhof (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seating arrangement includes a support shell including a seat portion and a chair back portion each configured to support a seated user, the chair seat portion having a front region and a rear region and the chair back portion having an upper region and a lower region, where the...