US Patent Issued to VITRA on March 25 for "Furniture kit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,836, issued on March 25, was assigned to VITRA AG (Birsfelden, Switzerland).

"Furniture kit" was invented by Stefan Keller (Steinen-Hofen, Germany) and Helmut Schutt (Mulllheim-Hugelheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A furniture kit is disclosed that includes a set each of floor ladders, longitudinal cross-bars, and longitudinal wind braces. Each of the floor ladders has two vertical supports connected via upper and lower rungs, each of the two vertical supports is equipped with a foot for placement on a floor. Each longitudinal end of the cross-bars is equipped with a latching claw mountable, without tools, on a floor lad...