ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,690, issued on March 11, was assigned to BETTER BASICS LABORBEDARF GMBH (Dresden, Germany).

"Clamp slide rail mounting device" was invented by Marcus Heinze (Dresden, Germany), Sebastian Stein (Dresden, Germany) and Mario Schneider (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a clamp slide rail mounting device for the reversible attachment of a mounting slide within a profile rail, where one or more objects can be attached to the mounting slide and the mounting slide can be guided within the profile rail. The mounting slide features a spring latching element with spring latching element depressions, whic...