ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,983, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ALAN LAMONT (Steinberg, Germany).

"Rollable piece of furniture" was invented by Tobias Hehenwarter (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a rollable piece of furniture comprising: a plurality of surface elements arranged next to one another, which are flexibly connected to one another in such a way that the piece of furniture can be transferred from a rolled up state to an unrolled state in relation to a rolling axis, wherein, in the unrolled state, the surface elements adjoin each other at least partially with their respective side surfaces and are bent in relation to th...