US Patent Issued to Steelcase on May 5 for "Ergonomic seating system, tilt-lock control and remote powering method and apparatus" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,301, issued on May 5, was assigned to Steelcase Inc. (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Ergonomic seating system, tilt-lock control and remote powering method and apparatus" was invented by Jean-Paul Labrosse (Altadena, Calif.), Michael Xinjie Chu (Los Angeles) and Scott Sullivan (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work environment adjustment system includes multiple instances of controllable office equipment located within an office space, each instance associated with a specific office location and including an activator for controlling states of the instance, at least one presence sensor for detecting user presence within each spac...