US Patent Issued to Hunter Douglas Industries on June 17 for "Position detection in an electric drive unit for cords of blinds" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,589, issued on June 17, was assigned to Hunter Douglas Industries B.V. (Rotterdam, Netherlands).

"Position detection in an electric drive unit for cords of blinds" was invented by Norbert Rieper (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Heiko Lilienthal (Rotterdam, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques including winding, by using an electric motor of the architectural covering, a blind of the architectural covering in a first direction. The techniques further include stopping the winding by the electric motor of the blind in the first direction at a programmatically adjustable wound end position. The techniques further include upo...