ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,399, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Desk with user selectable adjustments for hot desking" was invented by Marta Anna Nowak (Upper Arlington, Ohio), Michelle Kaufmann (Novato, Calif.), Christine Jean Wu (San Francisco), Robert Hutton IV (Providence, R.I.), Ayako Tanase (Cranston, R.I.), Joyce H. Lee (San Francisco), Jennie Mari Bernstein (Berkeley, Calif.) and David Radcliffe (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A desk includes a work surface, a casing, a carriage, a stand, and a plurality of actuators. The actuators are operable to selectively adjust a vertical position of the work...