ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,696, issued on Dec. 2.
"Inflatable garland" was invented by Emily Catherine Vaca (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A balloon garland has multiple interconnected balloon chambers in which the balloon chambers are asymmetric with each other in the inflated state and are substantially flattened when the balloon chambers are in a deflated state. In the inflated state, the interconnected balloon chambers have tangential connections that are located in different planes with axes that form skew lines that do not intersect and are not parallel. The axes of these planes are substantially parallel to each other and are substantially perpe...