ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,053, issued on Feb. 11.
"Furniture made from panels" was invented by Sam John Regner (Reyersdorf, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a piece of furniture made from a plurality of interconnectable planar elements (1, 2), in particular designed as a piece of children's furniture, such as a play house, wherein at least two of the adjacent planar elements (1, 2) are connectable by at least one plug connection, and wherein said plug connection is formed by a protrusion (3) which is formed on the end face of a first planar element (1) and which has an opening (4) extending crosswise to the flat side of the plan...