ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,148, issued on April 15, was assigned to JULIUS BLUM GMBH (Hoechst, Austria).
"Furniture drive" was invented by Alexander Simon Flogaus (Eriskirch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A furniture drive includes a housing to be arranged on a furniture panel, and an actuating arm assembly for moving the movable furniture part, and the actuating arm assembly includes an actuating arm movably-supported relative to the housing to be fixed to the movable furniture part. The actuating arm assembly is movable between a first relative position and a second relative position, and includes actuating arms pivotable relative to one another. A p...