ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,807, issued on April 29.
"Modular fence" was invented by Michael Kloepfer (Delhi, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fence system comprises a plurality of fence posts and a fence rail. The fence rail is characterized by a fence rail longitudinal axis and a fence rail cross-sectional profile in a plane orthogonal to the fence rail longitudinal axis. The fence rail cross-sectional profile has a hollow, obround shape. Each fence post has at least one rail opening having a substantially obround shape matching the obround shape of the cross-sectional profile of the fence rail, whereby a longitudinal end of the fence rail is slidingly ...