ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,955, issued on May 13.

"Method of manufacturing a modular electrical wiring device system" was invented by Richard M. Rohmer (Jordan, N.Y.), Francois Bardot (Ambazac, France), Jean-Luc Chaumeny (Solignac, France) and Anthony Lochet (Beaumont sur Sarthe, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including the steps of providing a frame member configured to be disposed over a device wall box, the frame member including at least one frame opening being configured to substantially define a modular space; and providing at least one modular electrical wiring device configured to substantially conform to the modular space in accordance...