Patents Assigned to Steelcase Inc.
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Patent number: 11910934Abstract: A seat assembly includes a base and a support platform spaced above the base. The support platform includes a pad having a hinge portion defining a flex region, wherein the pad is pivotable about the flex region. A link has a lower portion coupled to the base and an upper portion coupled to the pad, wherein the upper portion is pivotable with the pad about the flex region.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: STEELCASE INC.Inventors: Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, Kurt R. Heidmann, Gordon J. Peterson
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Patent number: 11910914Abstract: A desk including a support column having a top and a worksurface having a bottom. An attachment plate is disposed between and coupled to the top of the support column and to the bottom of the worksurface. A leveling component is disposed between the support column and the attachment plate. The leveling component is adjustable between a plurality of positions such that the attachment plate is moveable to a corresponding plurality of angular orientations relative to the top.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: STEELCASE INC.Inventors: John Allen, Colin Cote, Megan Grygiel, Bradley Youngs, Bryan Wahlfield
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Publication number: 20240057768Abstract: A workspace system includes different base components, different accessory interfaces and different accessories. Different accessory interfaces may be fixed to different base components, and different accessories may be releasably engaged by different, or the same accessory interfaces. The same accessories may be engaged by different accessory interfaces. The base components and accessories may be reconfigured to define different workspaces. Methods of assembling and reconfiguring the workspaces are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: John M. Allen, Charles Beasley, William Bennie, Justin G. Beitzel, Antonio Caballero, Robert E. Jeffers, Alban Moriniere, Penghao Shan
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Patent number: 11903158Abstract: A display support system includes a support rail extending in a first direction and at least one support bar carried by the support rail. The support bar is moveable relative to the support rail in at least the first and second directions. A mounting member is engaged with the support bar, with the mounting member being adapted to be coupled to a display. A method for mounting an array of displays on a wall, and a support cart for mounting a display, are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: STEELCASE INC.Inventors: Joseph Iacovoni, Keith Robert Machin, Santiago Carral O'Gorman
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Patent number: 11882934Abstract: A table assembly includes a tabletop member having a tabletop worksurface and a downwardly directed lower surface. A leg structure including first and second substantially vertical and spaced apart leg members is coupled to the lower surface for supporting the tabletop member. An elongated horizontal upper member extends between upper ends of the leg members. An elongated horizontal lower member below the tabletop member lower surface extends between and is joined to the leg members intermediate their upper and lower ends to form a gap with the upper member. A removable accessory bracket includes a substantially flat vertical member extending along a first plane and a lip member coupled to an upper end of the vertical member, the lip member extending along a second, substantially parallel plane spaced from the first plane and engaging the lower member to support the accessory bracket adjacent the outer surface of the lower member.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Kirt Martin, David C. Eberlein, Fredric Biddle
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Publication number: 20240023717Abstract: A backrest includes a primary frame having a pair of laterally spaced first uprights defining a first opening therebetween, a first front surface and a first rear surface. A secondary frame includes a pair of laterally spaced second uprights defining a second opening therebetween, a second rear surface facing the first front surface of the primary frame and a second front surface, wherein the secondary frame is coupled to the primary frame, and wherein at least portions of the first and second openings are aligned. A flexible shell overlies and is coupled to the second front surface of the secondary frame. The flexible shell includes a third rear surface visible through the aligned portions of the first and second openings.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, Kurt R. Heidmann, Pascal Rolf Hien, Jeffrey A. Hall, John Colasanti, Michael Yancharas
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Publication number: 20240008651Abstract: A seating arrangement including a seat member, a base, and an arm assembly including an arm base having a central portion and a receiver portion and exclusively supported from the base via a central portion at a position located between lateral outermost edges of the seat member, an arm stalk telescopingly received within the receiver portion and movable between retracted and extended positions, an arm support supported by the arm stalk, where the arm support moves in a forward direction with respect to the seat member as the arm stalk is moved from the retracted position to the extended position, and a bearing arrangement positioned between the arm stalk and the receiver portion and including a bearing member located between the receiver portion of the arm base and the arm stalk and a biasing member configured to bias the bearing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, Kurt R. Heidmann, Gordon J. Peterson, Russell T. Holdredge, Nathan Brock
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Patent number: 11864661Abstract: A body support assembly includes a moveable body support member coupled to a deflectable suspension material. Methods of using and assembling the body support assembly are provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: STEELCASE INCInventors: Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, Gordon J. Peterson
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Patent number: 11857083Abstract: A seating unit includes a chair with a backrest and a hook assembly. The backrest includes a rear surface having an outwardly protruding rim. The hook assembly comprises a cover plate and a weldment, and the cover plate may include a hook being integrally formed on an exterior face. The hook assembly is configured to be securely coupled on or within the outwardly protruding rim of the backrest, and a secure coupling between the hook assembly and the backrest is formed via insertion of a fastening member, which is inserted through an apertures on a bottom surface of the cover plate, such that the fastener is aligned substantially parallel to the rear surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Keith Robert Machin, Mark Schneider, David O. Morton, Ryan Jerome Ramos, Mark Spoelhof, Jamie Payne, Daniel George Parker
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Patent number: 11863907Abstract: A conferencing system for conferencing between multiple local conferees within a first conference space and at least a first remote conferee located remotely from the first conference space includes an emissive surface located within the first conference space for generating at least first and second video representations of the remote conferee and at least a first processor for driving the emissive surface to simultaneously present at least the first and second video representations on the emissive surface. The first video representation shows the remote conferee from a first perspective and the second video representation shows the remote conferee from a second, different perspective. The first video representation is observable from within a first viewing zone and not within a second viewing zone within the conference space, and the second video representation is observable from within the second viewing zone and not within the first viewing zone.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventor: Stephen E. Goetzinger
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Patent number: 11856326Abstract: A system and method for creating a virtual world conferencing experience wherein a first set of real world emissive surfaces and content thereon is replicated on virtual world emissive surfaces where the virtual world emissive surfaces are juxtaposed in a virtual world instance at locations and in orientations that replicate the juxtapositions in the real world arrangement and where the virtual world instance is presented on a second set of real world emissive surfaces at a virtual world workstation where the second set of emissive surfaces are arranged differently than the first set of real world surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Nicolas de Benoist, Francis Gerard Graziano, Mark Baloga, Paul Noll, Terry West
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Patent number: 11825955Abstract: A seating arrangement includes a base member, and an integrally formed support member coupled to the base member and supporting a seat moveable from an upright position to a reclined position, wherein a portion of the support member is bendable as the seat moves from the upright position to the reclined position such that a first side of the support member is put in tension and a second side generally opposite the first side is put in compression, and wherein the first side includes a tensile substrate so that the first side has as higher modulus of elasticity than the second side.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, Kurt R. Heidmann, Michael J. Kemen
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Patent number: 11819139Abstract: A backrest includes a primary frame having a pair of laterally spaced first uprights defining a first opening therebetween, a first front surface and a first rear surface. A secondary frame includes a pair of laterally spaced second uprights defining a second opening therebetween, a second rear surface facing the first front surface of the primary frame and a second front surface, wherein the secondary frame is coupled to the primary frame, and wherein at least portions of the first and second openings are aligned. A flexible shell overlies and is coupled to the second front surface of the secondary frame. The flexible shell includes a third rear surface visible through the aligned portions of the first and second openings.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: STEELCASE INC.Inventors: Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, Kurt R. Heidmann, Pascal Rolf Hien, Jeffrey A. Hall, John Colasanti, Michael Yancharas
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Patent number: D1008689Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Yuka Hiyoshi, Daniel Paulucci
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Patent number: D1009046Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Bo Anderson, Hyun Yoo, Kristi Hooper, Douglas Dale Buyce
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Patent number: D1009047Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Bo Anderson, Hyun Yoo, Kristi Hooper, Douglas Dale Buyce
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Patent number: D1009501Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: STEELCASE INC.Inventors: Michael Young, John Hamilton, Benjamin McCarthy, Alexandre Nacrour
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Patent number: D1009536Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Ryan Jerome Ramos, Mark Spoelhof
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Patent number: D1014782Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Mark McKenna, Brett Willink, Hyun Yoo, Nathan McCaughan, Cyril Joseph Mayne
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Patent number: D1014783Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Steelcase Inc.Inventors: Mark McKenna, Chris Pottinger, Brett Willink, Kevin Gillhespy