ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,225, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KG (Kirchlengern, Germany).
"Guide fitting and furniture or household appliance element" was invented by Gunter Behrmann (Kirchlengern, Germany), Kathrin Heckel (Bissendorf, Germany), Timo Szlapka (Bielefeld, Germany), Waldemar Petker (Bunde, Germany), Soren Kluter (Bad Oeynhausen, Germany) and Bernd Gotting (Enger, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide fitting guides movement of a body part mounted for simultaneous translational and rotational movement relative to a stationary base. The fitting includes a guide cam track, a guide element guided in the track, an...