US Patent Issued to TEXTRON INNOVATIONS on Feb. 17 for "Leg rest extension mechanism and method for operating the leg rest extension mechanism" (Kansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,017, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, R.I.).

"Leg rest extension mechanism and method for operating the leg rest extension mechanism" was invented by Blake David Raybern (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment a leg rest includes a mounting fixture, an extension frame and a deployment and stowage mechanism configured to deploy the leg rest from or stow the leg rest to a seat, wherein the extension frame is movably connected to the mounting fixture so that the extension frame moves relative to the mounting fixture when the deployment and stowage mechanism moves the leg res...