US Patent Issued to JULIUS BLUM on April 21 for "Furniture fitting" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,214, issued on April 21, was assigned to JULIUS BLUM GMBH (Hoechst, Austria).

"Furniture fitting" was invented by Markus Feuerstein (Gaissau, Austria) and Markus Irgang (Altach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A furniture fitting for connecting two furniture parts includes a dowel for fastening the furniture fitting to one of the two furniture parts, and an expansion element mounted for movement relative to the dowel. The dowel can be transferred from a first release position into a clamping position by a relative movement of the expansion element. A fitting body has a connecting device for connecting the furniture fitting to...