ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,053, issued on March 18, was assigned to Ancra International LLC (Azusa, Calif.).

"Adjustable deck system for cargo compartment" was invented by Gregory Alan Kauffman (Cincinnati), Jerome Thomas Jones (Independence, Ky.) and Matthew James Rommel (Independence, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deck system for cargo compartment may including one or more of the following features: a first deck; a second deck, where at least one of the first deck and the second deck divide the cargo compartment into an upper sub-compartment and a lower sub-compartment; and an actuator that is mechanically coupled to the second deck, where operation ...