ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,849, issued on Sept. 29.

"Systems and methods for modular furniture" was invented by Edouard Jean Riviere (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems and methods for modular furniture, for assembling a furniture unit into a desired configuration, having a plurality of modules, wherein each one of the modules is configured to fit with any one of each of the other modules, having: a plurality of horizontal modules, each one of the horizontal modules comprising: a horizontal frame; and at least one horizontal frame mating plate; a plurality of vertical modules, each one of the vertical modules compr...