ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,708, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Legrand AV Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Display mount with adjustable wall attachment" was invented by Adam Maves (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mount for attaching a flat panel television to a wall includes a pair of wall attachment brackets, each wall attachment bracket defining a pair of vertically spaced-apart apertures, a pair of cross bars, each cross bar received through a separate one of the apertures in each wall attachment bracket such that the cross bars are vertically spaced apart and parallel to each other, the cross bars being selectively horizontally slidable...