ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,226, 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), Bernd Gotting (Enger, Germany) and Soren Kluter (Bad Oeynhausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide fitting, guiding a body part for simultaneous translational and rotational movement relative to a stationary base, has a guide cam track, a guide element guided in the at least one guide cam track, and a linear g...