ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,600, issued on March 3, was assigned to Newton Instrument Co. (Butner, N.C.).
"Rack systems, components and methods" was invented by Steven Michael Jenkins (Raleigh, N.C.), Robert Louis Hyde II (Youngsville, N.C.) and William Philip Unger Jr. (Butner, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seismic base for an equipment rack includes a base plate, a first side wall attached to the base plate, a second side wall attached to the base plate, the second side wall being positioned behind the first side wall in a longitudinal direction, an anti-tip support bar extending between the first and second side walls in the longitudinal direction, a...