ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,503, issued on May 27, was assigned to Burrow Inc. (New York).

"Modular sofa construction and methods for assembly" was invented by Stephen Kuhl (New York), Kabeer Chopra (New York), Leah K. S. Amick (Portland, Ore.), Paul Koh (New York) and Alex Kubo (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular sofa assembly may include a plurality of seating modules each having a seat section, a backrest section, or side edge surfaces. The backrest section may include first and second portions coupled for movement between a folded configuration and an extended configuration. An armrest module may have an armrest side edge surface configur...