US Patent Issued to Ergotron on July 8 for "Configuration techniques for an appliance with changeable components" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,788, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ergotron Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Configuration techniques for an appliance with changeable components" was invented by Jeffrey Randall Mensing (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Jeffrey Aymond (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.) and Nicholas Simon Hazzard (Oakdale, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a workstation and a technique to automatically configure the workstation. The workstation can be used to perform various tasks including but not limited to medication delivery, collection of medical records, patient care, manufacturing operations, and others. The workstation can be c...