ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,699, issued on July 28, was assigned to VusionGroup Deutschland GmbH (Ettenheim, Germany).
"Spacer for a shelf support, comprising a light emitter" was invented by Thomas Schwarz (Hohberg, Germany) and Michael UnmuBig (Ettenheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a spacer (10) adapted to be fixed on a shelf support (100) so as to delimit a column of the shelf support (100), wherein the spacer (10) comprises a light-emitter (20) integrated in the spacer (10) and configured to emit light, wherein the light emitted by said light emitter (20) forms a signal corresponding to a blinking sequence which is speci...