ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,169, issued on May 6, was assigned to Ashley Furniture Industries LLC (Arcadia, Wis.).
"Drawer guide and furniture with drawer guides" was invented by Jeremy Thomas Herrick (Whitehall, Wis.) and Karl Joseph Fegi (Holmen, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A molded drawer guide for seating of a drawer within a cabinet. The molded drawer glide having an attachment portion configured as a pad opposite a spacing portion, and with a gliding portion therebetween, all unitary and having a common downwardly facing bottom surface to seat on an upwardly facing horizontal surface of a cabinet at the drawer opening. The gliding portion being ro...