US Patent Issued to CROMPTON VENTURES on June 17 for "Method and system for providing a movable privacy curtain support beam" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,513, issued on June 17, was assigned to CROMPTON VENTURES LLC (Wilmette, Ill.).

"Method and system for providing a movable privacy curtain support beam" was invented by Marc Eric Hatton (Wilmette, Ill.), Robert Alfred Blanford (Wilmette, Ill.), Thomas Allan Fitzgerald (Wilmette, Ill.) and Glen Ray Platner (Wilmette, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A movable curtain support system and method may include a movable support beam with two ends and a material hanging on the movable support beam. The system also may include two stationary beams as well as a trolley coupled to each end of the movable support beam and each stationary beam...