US Patent Issued to Kaprock Management on July 22 for "Shelving unit" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,345, issued on July 22, was assigned to Kaprock Management LLC (Grapevine, Texas).

"Shelving unit" was invented by Dylan Tyler Ritchie (Carlsbad, Calif.), Noah Michael Rodebaugh (Lake Forest, Calif.) and Matthew Eaton Davis (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and associated methods relate to a vertical shelving unit with rails following a curvilinear path protruding into the shelving space and slidingly supporting a lip of a bin. The vertical shelving unit may, for example, include multiple vertical posts (VPs) defining a three-dimensional space. The VPs may, for example, include a set of horizont...