ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,362, issued on April 15, was assigned to Night and Day Furniture LLC (Vancouver, Wash.).
"Furniture objects including hidden containers" was invented by Joel Grossman (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) and Howard Porter (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A furniture apparatus including a frame, a movable facade configured to transition between an open state and a closed state; and a hidden container configured to rest on a set of support ledges attached to one or more of the frame and an unhidden container optionally associated with the furniture apparatus such that the hidden container is configured to be visible when the ...