ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,837, issued on Feb. 4.

"Systems and methods for bicycle storage with asymmetrical, shared individual storage spaces" was invented by Walter B. Zahn (Somerville, Mass.) and Doris Baumgaertner (Dielheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bicycle storage unit has a support base with parallel, horizontal first and second base frame bars spaced apart from each other; and vertical, parallel support posts extending perpendicularly from the base bottom frame bars, for suspending bicycles in a double row along the length of the unit. Adjacent support posts in a first and second set of support posts are spaced apart on the first and seco...