ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,531, issued on April 1, was assigned to JULIUS BLUM GMBH (Hoechst, Austria).
"Drive device for a movable furniture part" was invented by Andreas Folie (Dornbirn, Austria), Martin Huber (Lindau, Germany), Klaus Kroess (Dornbirn, Austria) and Juan Jesus Pedrosa Fernandez (Dornbirn, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive device for a movable furniture part including a support to be fastened to a furniture carcass, an actuation arm device mounted movably on the support and to be connected to the movable furniture part, an energy store for applying force to the actuation arm device, a damping device for damping a closing and openi...