ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,263, issued on April 14.

"Universal treetop mount" was invented by Yung-Chen Hsu (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Ling-Yung Lin (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A universal treetop mount for fixedly coupling a treetop decorative light to the top end of the main body of a tree-shaped decoration includes a mount body whose bottom side has a connecting portion for coupling with the main body of the tree-shaped decoration, and whose top side forms an upper mount surface for coupling with the treetop decorative light. A hollow positioning tube extends upward from a central position on the upper mount surface and is peripherall...