ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,587, issued on July 21.

"Column gap cover system" was invented by Yariv Kadosh (Tel Aviv, Israel), Mordehay Ben Aharon (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Amit Kaufman (Borgata, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A column gap cover system that includes right and left columns with toothed wheels intended to be fixed to a furniture, right and left ratchet clamps including a half-round clamp and a pawl connected together by a spring, and a sheet of fabric that its ends are connected to the clamps. The system is intended to cover a gap between the columns. The clamps are assembled on the columns and the pawls engage dips between the teeth of the t...