ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,526, issued on May 27, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.) and Keter Plastic LTD. (Herzelyia, Israel).

"Storage device system" was invented by Grant T. Squiers (Cudahy, Wis.), Yaron Brunner (Kibbutz Gvat, Israel), Izhar Shani (Kibbutz Gvat, Israel) and Omer Menashri (Kibbutz Afikim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool storage device system includes a base and a tool storage container removably coupled to the base. The tool storage container slides in a first direction relative to the base to attach the tool storage container to the base, and the tool storage container slides in a second direction...