ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,239, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Julius Blum GmbH (Hoechst, Austria).
"Electric motor-powered furniture drive" was invented by Matthias Grimm (Altach, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric motor-powered furniture drive includes an electric motor; an interface via which the electric motor-powered furniture drive can be connected to a mechanical actuator; and an identification device for automatically identifying a configuration of the mechanical actuator. Regions of the identification device are located on the interface such that the configuration of the mechanical actuator can be identified when the electric motor...