ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,167, issued on May 6, was assigned to Inter IKEA Systems B.V. (LN Delft, Netherlands).
"Anti-tipping storage furniture" was invented by Daniel Schon (Kalvsvik, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage furniture is disclosed. The storage furniture includes a frame and at least one drawer movable into and at least partly out of the frame when the at least one drawer present in the frame. The frame includes an upper section and a lower section, the lower section having a greater front to back distance than that of the upper section. The upper section includes a pair of upper side panels and the lower section includes a pair of lo...