ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,117, issued on Feb. 10.
"Hand rail system and associated components and methods" was invented by Charles Wiebe (St. Louis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand rail system and associated methods. Newel posts of the hand rail system can be mounted in a top mount configuration or a lateral mount configuration. Mounts are receivable in a boot subassembly in a horizontal or vertical arrangement for anchoring the boot subassembly to substructure. After anchoring of the boot subassembly, a column subassembly may be installed and anchored. Openings in the boot and column subassemblies permit access to the interior of the newel post for anch...