ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,348, issued on March 24, was assigned to AUTOSLIDE PTY LTD (Wetherill Park, Australia).
"Lift- and-slide handle assembly" was invented by Mark Hancock (Wetherill Park, Australia), Tim Gulliver (Wetherill Park, Australia) and Oleksandr Fatiuk (Wetherill Park, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a lift-and-slide handle assembly (10) which includes a drive shaft (28) operatively adapted to couple with a roller actuating assembly of a lift-and-slide roller carriage. The lift-and-slide handle assembly (10) includes an electronic drive assembly (30) operatively adapted to couple with the drive shaft (28) to apply t...