US Patent Issued to Allsteel on July 21 for "Modular wall system" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,014, issued on July 21, was assigned to Allsteel Inc. (Muscatine, Iowa).

"Modular wall system" was invented by Eberhard Von Hoyningen Huene (Hudson, Canada), Michael Salzman (Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Canada) and Anneke Struis (Coteau-du-Lac, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wall panel of a moveable and demountable frameless wall panel system that is secured between a floor of a room and a ceiling rail secured to a ceiling of the room. The wall panel includes a frameless panel, an upper clamp assembly, a ceiling track configured to be removably inserted into the ceiling rail, a lower clamp assembly, a first height adjustment mechan...