US Patent Issued to JULIUS BLUM on March 24 for "Furniture drive" (German, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,339, issued on March 24, was assigned to JULIUS BLUM GMBH (Hoechst, Austria).

"Furniture drive" was invented by Alexander Peterlunger (Lustenau, Austria), Stephan Hetzinger (Schorndorf, Germany), Markus Singer (Plochingen, Germany), Albrecht Kreissig (Stuttgart, Germany) and Tobias Waibel (Ostfildern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A furniture drive for moving a furniture part movably supported relative to a furniture carcass. The furniture drive includes a carrier to be fixed to the furniture carcass, an actuating arm pivotally supported relative to the carrier about a pivoting axis between a closed position and a maximum o...