ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,975, issued on June 30, was assigned to Pure Vista Ltd (Bodmin, Great Britain).

"System and method for adjusting the alignment of a flat panel" was invented by Angus Noble (Totnes, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is desirable to pivot a flat panel about an axis at or near the opening of a trough, so that the panel is not visibly closer to one side of the trough than the other. The present invention provides a tray 2,5 disposed within a trough 3, a panel socket 4,7 configured to engage with the tray such that movement of the tray along the trough in the longitudinal direction results in lateral movement of the panel so...