{"id":4396,"date":"2024-12-04T18:41:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T00:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4396"},"modified":"2024-12-04T18:41:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T00:41:27","slug":"december-5-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4396","title":{"rendered":"December 5, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On December 5, 1854, Aaron H. Allen received U.S. Patent No. 12,017 on an Opera Chair:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"536\" height=\"764\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-10.png 536w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-10-210x300.png 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The seat pivoted to a vertical orientation when not in use, to allow people to more easily traverse a row, while allowing theaters and similar venues to space rows of seats closer together to increase capacity.  This style of seating revolutionized theater-type venues, and is still in use today.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"289\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-9.png 400w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-9-300x217.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Aaron endured a patent interference, and at least one infringement suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 5, 1854, Aaron H. Allen received U.S. Patent No. 12,017 on an Opera Chair: The seat pivoted to a vertical orientation when not in use, to allow people to more easily traverse a row, while allowing theaters and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4396\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patent-of-the-day"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4399,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396\/revisions\/4399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}