US Patent Issued to HIDDENLAKE 822 on Sept. 9 for "Actuating mechanism or system for a powered furniture seating piece" (Mississippi Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,755, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to HIDDENLAKE 822 LLC (Tupelo, Miss.).

"Actuating mechanism or system for a powered furniture seating piece" was invented by Stephen R. Lake (Tupelo, Miss.) and Terry Dale Johnson (Baldwyn, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuating mechanism for a powered furniture piece comprises a base, a seat rail operatively connected to the base, a back support bracket, a footrest mounting bracket, an ottoman drive link, a linear actuator, and a control link, such that when the linear actuator is extended to a first predetermined position, the footrest mounting bracket will be moved from a retracted ...