ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,113, issued on July 22.
"Child safe tension corded shade" was invented by Ingo Scholz (Saint Petersburg, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tension corded, top down/bottom up shade assembly has a fabric shade mounted between two siderails. The siderails have endcaps at each end. The shade is suspended from two of the endcaps. The shade has a top rail and a bottom rail with laterally protruding extended cord slides. The siderails have a sidewall with a front wall portion and a rear wall portion. Integral interior walls extend from the front and rear walls, forming a gap to a longitudinal cord passage. The cord passages face each ot...