ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,692, issued on April 22.

"Furniture base structure" was invented by Scott Stewart (Milwaukie, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base for support of a rigid surface, assembled from a plurality of elongated beams shaped to meet at contiguous angles connecting the beams so as to form a structure with pentagonal topology. The base can include at least a first beam, second beam, third beam, fourth beam, fifth beam, and sixth beam joined to form the base structure."

The patent was filed on March 27, 2023, under Application No. 18/190,834.

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