ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,344, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Roto Frank Fenster-und Turtechnologie GmbH (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).

"Fitting assembly for arranging between a fixed frame and a leaf of a window or door" was invented by Erkan Balci (Filderstadt, Germany) and Nyikos Tamas (Sopron, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fitting assembly for arranging between a fixed frame and a leaf of a window or a door includes a transverse guide, a lift-off drive and a longitudinal guide. A leaf-side transverse guide part of the transverse guide can be moved into a lifting-off position by the lift-off drive, in a lifting-off direction running per...