ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,257, issued on May 5, was assigned to BIONDAN NORTH AMERICA INC. (Toronto).

"Columbarium for containing funerary objects" was invented by Filippo Rossi (Isola Della Scala, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A columbarium for containing funerary objects, provided with at least one self-supporting base structure which can be arranged so as to rest on a supporting surface and forms a plurality of niches for housing funerary objects; the base structure comprises a plurality of portions of profiled elements which are mutually interconnected and are arranged along at least two mutually perpendicular directions, in order to delimit at least...