ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,838, issued on June 17, was assigned to Bell and Howell LLC (Durham, N.C.).
"Lockable shelves and methods" was invented by Mahlon Tucker Daniels (Holly Springs, N.C.) and Richard Daniel Johnson (Fuquay Varina, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-locking assembly includes one or more shelves. Each of the shelves has dividers, which define storage bays that are adjacent to each other in a lateral direction and adjacent storage bays being spaced apart from each other by one of the dividers positioned therebetween, and a lock contained within each storage bay. The self-locking assembly also includes one or more storage units havin...