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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2021
Steelcase Inc., Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Bruce Smith, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Bo Anderson, Byron Center, MI (US);
Karl Jahn Mead, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Robert Scheper, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Hyun Yoo, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Michael Held, Munich, DE;
Justin Glen Beitzel, Baltimore, MD (US);
STEELCASE INC., Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Abstract
A system and methods including workstations for use in office spaces where the workstations include electrical couplers and power distribution systems for coupling portable and rechargeable batteries to the arrangements and delivering electrical charge to affordance devices where battery charging stations are located at different locations throughout a facility and alerts including nearest charging station with fully charged batteries are provided to employees at the stations when battery depletion thresholds are met or where batteries are automatically delivered to facility locations via automated robotic carts when needed.