ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,677, issued on July 28.
"Retrofittable drawer slide acceleration and deceleration system" was invented by Gunther Zimmer (Rheinau, Germany) and Martin Zimmer (Rheinau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combined acceleration and deceleration system for use on a drawer system has a C-shaped drawer guide rail and a drawer guided therein. A housing in which a driving element loaded by means of a deceleration apparatus and an energy storage device can be moved between a non-positively and/or positively secured parking position and an end position. The housing has a first adapter and a second adapter. Each adapter has an engagement ...