ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,012, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Andreas Maier GmbH & Co. KG (Fellbach, Germany).
"Base unit for releasably fixing workpiece supports" was invented by Karl Widmer (Stuttgart, Germany) and Christian Derrez (Winnenden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to create a base unit for releasably fixing workpiece supports, which each comprise at least one clamping bolt, that makes it possible to quickly and reliably create a workpiece support structure from a plurality of workpiece supports on the top side of the base unit, said workpiece support structure having a total workpiece support face of a desired shape and size, ...