ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,140, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Hui-Chuan Liao (Oakland, Calif.).

"Assembly device for a table" was invented by Chun-Ti Wang (Taichung, Taiwan), Hui-Chuan Liao (Oakland, Calif.), Meng-Fu Ji (Taichung, Taiwan) and Ching-Hsuan Chiu (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly device for a table is disposed between a table board and a mounting frame of a table. The table board has an assembling hole with a stepped face. The assembly device has an assembling mount and at least one engaging element. The assembling mount has a connecting portion and an engaging portion connected to the connecting portion and having ...