US Patent Issued to VAKO on Sept. 29 for "Operating device for a window covering" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,629, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to VAKO B.V. ('s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands).

"Operating device for a window covering" was invented by Nanne Willem Valkenburg ('s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an operating device for a window covering such as a Roman blind, pleated blind and/or a horizontal blind, comprising at least one carrying structure, at least one axially rotatable cord spool configured for winding up and unwinding at least one pull cord thereby lowering and/or raising a window covering, at least one drive shaft connected to the at least one cord spool, at least one pu...