ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,970, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Ergotron Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).
"Adjustable and stowable workstation assembly" was invented by Michael P. Barros (Minnetonka, Minn.), Thiem Chan Duong Wong (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Linnea Londborg (Minneapolis), Andrew P. Laureijs (Saint Paul, Minn.) and John William Theis (St. Paul, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workstation holding one or more electronic devices, e.g., a display, keyboard, or the like, can be mounted on a structure, e.g., a wall, using an articulating arm assembly including one or more arms. The one or more arms can be rotatingly coupled to the structure on one end an...