ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,706, issued on April 22, was assigned to MCS Industries Inc. (Easton, Pa.).

"Frame apparatus" was invented by Brad William Huff (Nazareth, Pa.), Matthew Scott Kressin (Allentown, Pa.) and Weisha Yu (Belvidere, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frame apparatus for displaying a flat article and a combined frame apparatus and flat article. In one aspect, the frame apparatus includes a display frame defining a rabbet, a stack positioned in the rabbet, and a spacer apparatus. The rabbet is defined by a floor and a wall. The wall includes an engagement feature which may be a channel. The spacer apparatus is configured to be positioned i...