ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,433, issued on July 1, was assigned to ILW LC (Sheridan, Wyo.).
"Utility tray" was invented by Christopher Eng (Newton, Mass.) and Patrick Triato (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The tray has a horizontal base and an edge. A C-clamp has a horizontally oriented side coupled to a bottom surface of the base, normal to and adjacent the edge. The C-clamp has first and second vertically oriented sides extending downward. The second vertically oriented side has a threaded hole. A screw has a shaft, a handle at a first end, and a shoe at a second end of the shaft. The second end of the screw passes through the threaded hole of t...