ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,063, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DewertOkin Technology Group Co. Ltd. (Jiaxing, China).
"Furniture drive with an electric drive motor with a braking device" was invented by Christian Muller (Rahden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A furniture drive includes an electric drive motor and a brake device. The drive motor has an output shaft which projects beyond a motor housing and the brake device has at least one brake element and one force accumulator. The force accumulator permanently loads a friction surface of the at least one brake element with a brake force. The force accumulator and the brake element are configured ...