ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,772, issued on March 31, was assigned to Quality Wood Designs Inc. (Mitchell, S.D.).

"Slidable rod rack system" was invented by Michael Honermann (Mitchell, S.D.) and Victor Honermann (Mitchell, S.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a device may include a support and a slidable rack. The support includes a support base and first and second inclined slide mechanisms attached to opposed sides of the support base. The first and second inclined slide mechanisms are inclined so that a first distance between top edges of the first and second inclined slide mechanisms is less than a second distance between bottom edges o...