ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,079, issued on Aug. 12.

"Space saving manual shelf management system" was invented by William R. Goehring (Wexford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bottom supporting shelf allocation and management system for rows of products includes adjacent shelf allocating and managing units. Each unit includes a shelf supported base supporting at least one row of products, and a perpendicular side divider extending vertically above the base. The side divider is removeably attached to a base side edge where the coupling locks the side divider and base in a fixed lateral and vertical position but enables the side divider to manually slide for...