ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,902, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Dragerwerk AG & Co KGaA (Germany).

"Cable manager" was invented by Peter Andrew Und (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a rigid housing and flexible tubes. The rigid housing includes cable receptacles. Each cable receptacle has a distal end and a longitudinal opening configured to accept a cable. The flexible tubes are configured to accept cables and orient the cables in a customizable, organized manner. Each flexible tube is secured to a respective cable receptacle at the distal end and has a longitudinal opening oriented to align with the longitudinal opening of the...