ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,282, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Sedus Systems GmbH (Geseke, Germany).
"Piece of furniture" was invented by Andreas Reim (Herford, Germany) and Mirko Nordheim (Burgwald Bottendorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piece of furniture has polygonal shelves and vertical supporting posts, wherein each shelf is connected in each of its corner regions to a respective supporting post. The supporting posts have, over their height, corner cutouts, into which corner connectors are inserted in a form-fitting and/or force-fitting manner, wherein each corner connector engages around a corner region of a shelf and is fastened on the u...