ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,088, issued on July 15, was assigned to Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KG (Kirchlengern, Germany).
"Furniture element and piece of furniture" was invented by Heiko Boekhoff (Bad Oeynhausen, Germany), Britta Kloss (Bielefeld, Germany), Waldemar Petker (Bunde, Germany), Timo Szlapka (Bielefeld, Germany), Soren Kluter (Bad Oeynhausen, Germany), Timo Kaps (Werther, Germany) and Verena Dullmann (Bielefeld, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A furniture element, in particular a support or shelf having at least one storage level, has a carcass having at least one support surface, and a translational-rotation fitting for allowing a translationa...