US Patent Issued to Ashley Furniture Industries on Oct. 7 for "Upholstered recliner including molded furniture components" (Wisconsin, Mississippi Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,410, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ashley Furniture Industries LLC (Arcadia, Wis.).

"Upholstered recliner including molded furniture components" was invented by Timothy A. Brandtner (Ettrick, Wis.), Nicholas J. Robinson (Ettrick, Wis.) and Philip Bramlett (Ripley, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An upholstered recliner, a frame including a pair blow molded hollow arm rest forms. Further components may be blow molded such as a back rest. The arm rest forms and backrest forms may be reinforced with metal plates and assembled into a recliner. The backrest form may have legs with kd brackets secured thereto by clamping onto the p...