US Patent Issued to Inter IKEA Systems on Feb. 17 for "Extension table" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,006, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Inter IKEA Systems B.V. (LN Delft, Netherlands).

"Extension table" was invented by Benny Andersson (Almhult, Sweden), Thomas Holma (Svangsta, Sweden), Markus Lindgren (Almhult, Sweden) and Peter Mansson (Killeberg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extension table (2) comprises a plurality of extension rails (4, 6) along the table (2) for adjusting a dimension of the table (2), wherein an extension rail (4) of the plurality of extension rails (4, 6) comprises, laterally disposed relative to each other, a middle part (4b); a first outer part (4a) connected to a first section (10) of the t...