ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,673, issued on March 17, was assigned to JULIUS BLUM GMBH (Hoechst, Austria).

"Furniture fitting for mounting a furniture part" was invented by Olaf Isele (Lustenau, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A furniture fitting for mounting, preferably movably, a first furniture part onto a second furniture part, includes a metal piece made from sheet metal, more particularly a connecting piece, having two faces spaced apart from one another by a material thickness of the sheet metal. The two faces have a regular arrangement of successive elevations and depressions, and one elevation on one of the two faces lies opposite a depression o...