ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,261, issued on March 3, was assigned to EUROCAVE (Villeurbanne, France).

"Shelf for a cabinet for receiving bottles" was invented by Felix Gilbert (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shelf including a row of supports supported by a frame, which is slidable is aligned along a transverse direction. Each support comprises cradles aligned parallel to the same longitudinal direction to form a column. Each cradle of one of the supports is aligned with a cradle of the other supports along the transverse direction, to form a row. Each support may individually support a bottle in a longitudinal position, where the bottle is arrang...