ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,751, issued on April 22, was assigned to Colebrook Bosson & Saunders (Products) Ltd. (London).

"Accessory support bracket" was invented by Alex James Corrie (London) and Jack Thomas Fearnley (Wakefield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bracket configured to selectively couple an accessory to a piece of furniture, where the bracket includes a backing plate including a pair of longitudinally extending opposed side rails and a rack having a plurality of teeth, the teeth extending between the pair of opposed side rails. A stationary clamping platform is fixedly coupled to the backing plate, where the accessory is supported b...