ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,489, issued on July 15, was assigned to JULIUS BLUM GMBH (Hoechst, Austria).
"Furniture drive system for a movable furniture part" was invented by Matthias Grimm (Altach, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A furniture drive system includes: a support for mounting the system on a furniture carcass; an actuating arm device movably mounted on the support and to be connected to the movable furniture part; an electric motor to be connected to the actuating arm device to move sections of the actuating arm device; a drive device separate from the electric motor for exerting a force on the actuating arm device; an adjusting device for ad...