ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,100, issued on March 25, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).
"Convertible seating systems for marine vessels" was invented by Fabrizio De Luca (Port Orange, Fla.), Daniel S. Freer (New Smyrna Beach, Fla.) and J. Andrew Campbell (New Smyrna Beach, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A convertible seating system for a marine vessel has a leaning post and a reversible seat having a first seat side and a second seat side which is transversely oriented to the first seat side. The reversible seat is coupled to the leaning post and movable into and between a forward seating position located above the leaning post and a rearwar...