US Patent Issued on July 14 for "Electric umbrella" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,916, issued on July 14.

"Electric umbrella" was invented by Bingcan Kong (Taizhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric umbrella has a column, a first driving assembly, a slider, an umbrella frame, a second driving assembly, a power source and a control module. The first driving assembly is arranged on the column. The umbrella frame connects to the column and the slider, and the second driving assembly is arranged on the umbrella frame. A power source is charged by solar energy, a control module connects to the first driving assembly, the second driving assembly and the power source, respectively. When the electric u...