ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,020, issued on June 3, was assigned to MACK RIDES GMBH & Co. KG (Waldkirch, Germany).
"Event furniture" was invented by Gunter Burger (Waldkirch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to event furniture comprising at least one table and/or at least one chair as an event furniture component (100, 200, 250, 300, 350), wherein at least one table (11, 250), a table part (120, 300, 350) of the at least one table (11), the at least one chair (110, 200), and/or a combination of the above-mentioned event furniture components have means for carrying out an individual machine-controlled movement."
The patent was filed on...