ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,505, issued on July 7, was assigned to Star Seeds Co. LTD (Changhua County, Taiwan).
"Anti-pinch electric linear actuator for electric adjustable furniture" was invented by Horace Robert Eskridge III (Nicholasville, Ky.), Chuan Huang Shih (Changhua County, Taiwan), Yu-Chi Yang (Changhua County, Taiwan) and Wen-Chi Hsu (Changhua County, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anti-pinch electric linear actuator includes an inner tube extending into an outer tube and having inner and outer ends located inside and outside the outer tube respectively, a lead screw extending inside the outer and inner tubes, a nut screwed onto the lead sc...