US Patent Issued on Oct. 7 for "Furniture having spans supported by downwardly flaring posts" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,408, issued on Oct. 7.

"Furniture having spans supported by downwardly flaring posts" was invented by Patsy Ogden (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least one furniture upright vertical posts or legs inserted into at least one opening in at least one furniture horizontal span (shelf, top, frame) to retain the span horizontally. Each post diverges from its apex to its base. Each opening is bounded by interior facing walls that diverge downward to complement divergence of the post at an elevated region of the post. The retention of the span at the elevated region of the post arises because of the complementary div...