ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,325, issued on June 2, was assigned to JULIUS BLUM GMBH (Hoechst, Austria).

"Furniture drive for moving a furniture part that is movably mounted relative to a furniture body" was invented by Armin Baldreich (Lauterach, Austria), Alexander Simon Flogaus (Eriskirch, Germany), Andreas Holzapfel (Bregenz, Austria), Dominik Hagspiel (Hoechst, Austria) and Peter Gabel (Meiningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A furniture drive includes a carrier and an actuating arm assembly arranged on the carrier and including a movably-supported actuating arm. The furniture drive also includes a spring device for applying a force to the actuatin...