ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,803, issued on May 27, was assigned to HNI Technologies Inc. (Muscatine, Iowa).

"Workspace wall panels and systems including same" was invented by Gregory Ferris (Muscatine, Iowa), Mitchell R. Bakker (Holland, Mich.) and Austin Blough (Muscatine, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wall panel for a workspace system includes a monolithic wall portion and a cover carried by the monolithic wall portion. The monolithic wall portion includes a first surface, an aperture including a wall opening formed on the first surface, and a second surface opposite the first surface. The cover includes a channel adjacent to the first surface, and th...