ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,358, issued on July 14, was assigned to JULIUS BLUM GMBH (Hoechst, Austria).

"Fitting for movably mounting a pivoting element" was invented by Thomas Schuler (Hard, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fitting for movably mounting a pivoting element of a door or a window relative to a stationary support, includes a first substantially cuboid-shaped fitting part to be arrangeable substantially completely in a recess on an end face of a panel of the support, and a second fitting part for securing to the pivoting element, the second fitting part being pivotally connected to the first fitting part. The second fitting part can be arra...