ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,768, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ditto Sales Inc. (Jasper, Ind.).
"Apparatus for linking articles of furniture" was invented by Derrick Hochgesang (Huntingburg, Ind.), Tyler Deaton (Evansville, Ind.) and Eric Harrison (Florence, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A linking assembly is provided for linking two articles of furniture that includes a support member and a latch member that are pivotably connected by a lever member. The support member includes a hook portion configured to engage a link engagement opening in a beam of one of the articles of furniture. The latch member also includes a hook portion configured to engag...