US Patent Issued to REICHLE & DE-MASSARI on Oct. 28 for "Fixing unit, a moveable assembly, a base unit and a method for releasing a moveable assembly" (American, Bulgarian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,417, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to REICHLE & DE-MASSARI AG (Wetzikon, Switzerland).

"Fixing unit, a moveable assembly, a base unit and a method for releasing a moveable assembly" was invented by Bryce Alvarez (Milpitas, Calif.) and Evgeni Zhelyazkov (Sofia, Bulgaria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is based on a fixing unit (20, 20a) for reversibly fixing a moveable unit (18, 18a). For the purpose of providing a fixing unit with improved characteristics regarding flexibility, construction and/or a fixation, it is proposed that the fixing unit (20, 20a) is moveable parallel to a move direction (28, 28a) of the moveabl...