ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,413, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to E Z REACH KITCHENS Ltd. (Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland).
"Accessibility of storage cabinets" was invented by Michael Keane (Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland), Ernie Hietrich (Cork, Ireland), Martin O'Malley (Dublin) and Anthony Bland (Bedford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive apparatus fits into a storage cabinet with a storage unit with shelves and is suited for mounting on a wall above a worktop. A push/pull mechanism pushes the storage unit outwardly from the housing, and a separate vertical drive mechanism then lowers the storage unit to a level beneath the housing, where it is acc...