ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,696, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to JULIUS BLUM GMBH (Hoechst, Austria).

"Drawer pull-out guide for movably supporting a drawer on a furniture body" was invented by Olaf Isele (Lustenau, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drawer pull-out guide includes a body rail to be secured to a furniture body, and a drawer rail to be connected to a drawer and movably mounted relative to the body rail in a longitudinal direction. At least one of the rails has a profiled section made of a flat sheet metal and having two longitudinal edges running parallel to each other, in a cross-section normal to the longitudinal direction. An embossing ...