US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Feb. 4 for "Apparatus and method for manufacturing a fabric suspension seat structure" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,592, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Apparatus and method for manufacturing a fabric suspension seat structure" was invented by Craig Martin Oomen (Lowell, Mich.), Samuel Smith (Allendale, Mich.), Robert A. Bratty (Stanton, Mich.), Michael Long (Sparta, Mich.) and Kelly Washburn (Middleville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat assembly includes a fabric component with a seat surface and with an interior segment directly attached to the fabric component. The interior segment extends from an exterior segment that has a greater flexural resistance than the interior segment."

The pat...