ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,171, issued on May 6, was assigned to ACCURIDE INTERNATIONAL GMBH (Diez, Germany).
"Telescopic rail" was invented by Christoph Neuhaus (Niederelbert, Germany) and Christian Satony (Urbar, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the invention, a telescopic rail is proposed, having a first rail element, a second rail element, a third rail element, and a drive device, wherein the first rail element and the second rail element are mounted together such that the first rail element and the second rail element are linearly displaceable relative to one another in and counter to a pull-out direction, wherein the third rail element...