US Patent Issued to Veyhl on May 6 for "Fitting for a height-adjustable table and height-adjustable table" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,173, issued on May 6, was assigned to Veyhl GmbH (Neuweiler, Germany).

"Fitting for a height-adjustable table and height-adjustable table" was invented by Wolfgang Bruder (Simmersfeld, Germany) and Horst Schober (Neuweiler, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fitting for clamping a table top at different heights to a, preferably obliquely aligned, column extending through the fitting, includes a first and a second fitting part each having an abutment section for abutment against the column from opposite directions, at least one clamping part movable into a release position and a clamping position, and an actuating element movabl...