ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,714, issued on July 29, was assigned to OKAMURA Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Chair" was invented by Yoshinori Isogai (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chair of an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a support base; and a chair body including a seat frame that extends in the forward-rearward direction and forms at least part of a seat, and a back frame that is provided in the rear end of the seat frame to be pivotable around an axis O1 extending in the left-right direction, extends upward from the seat frame, and forms at least part of a backrest. The support base includes a slider that supports, in front of the ax...