ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,680, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Dorel Home Furnishings Inc. (Wright City, Mo.).
"Foldable chair" was invented by Kyle J. Lawrence (Greenfield, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foldable chair includes a front-leg unit, a seat bottom mounted on the front-leg unit for pivotable movement relative to the front-leg unit, a rear-leg unit mounted on the front-leg unit for pivotable movement relative to the front-leg unit, and mover means for driving the rear-leg unit away from the front-leg unit to establish an expanded-use mode of the foldable char and for driving the rear-leg unit towards the front-leg unit to establish a collap...