ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,735, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to MillerKnoll Inc. (Zeeland, Mich.).
"Cover assembly for a chair" was invented by Roland Zwick (Berlin), Johann Burkhard Schmitz (Berlin) and Carola Zwick (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cover assembly for a chair includes a chair cover configured to be positioned over at least a portion of a first surface of the chair, and an attachment mechanism configured to couple the chair cover to the chair. The attachment mechanism includes a flexible strip coupled to a perimeter of the chair cover and configured to be arranged on a second surface of the chair, and a tensioning element coupled to ...