ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,481, issued on March 31, was assigned to Inter IKEA Systems B.V. (Netherlands).

"Guide device for a sliding screen system" was invented by Stefan Brendel (Markaryd, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a guide device for a sliding screen system. The guide device includes a housing, a height adjustment element arranged to be set in different positions in a height direction, and a manually operable pivot connected to the housing for pivoting around a pivot axis and connected to the height adjust-ment element for moving the height adjustment element when pivoted. The housing includes a first toothed structure...