ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,857, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Silicate Studio Home LLC (Rexburg, Idaho).

"Shelf system for vertical mounts" was invented by Steve Davis (Rexburg, Idaho), Riley Plocher (Rexburg, Idaho) and Jeff Ward (Rexburg, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shelf system mounts to a wall and has a pair of mounting rails mounted to the wall. The mounting rails are elongated, vertically oriented, and spaced-apart from one another. The mounting rails have an array of bores extending laterally into and arrayed vertically along the mounting rail. A shelf is coupled to and between the pair of mounting rails. Lateral apertures in lateral sid...