ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,807, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GRAMMER AG (Ursensollen, Germany).
"Table device" was invented by Thomas Hagler (Wernberg-Koblitz, Germany) and Christopher Neidl (Schmidgaden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a table device, in particular for a seat arrangement in a person transport means comprising a first table element, wherein the first table element at least partially encloses a second table element, wherein the second table element is displaceable both together with the first table element and independently of the first table element between a first position and a second position."
The paten...