ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,813, issued on June 30.
"Globe" was invented by Rihua Yu (Yantai, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a globe. A globe body of the globe consists of seven layers, i.e. layers A, B, C, D, E, F and G, of graticule structures from outside to inside, wherein layer A is composed of six large plates and boundary motion directions; layers B, C and D are mainly composed of an asthenosphere, a Benioff zone, a hot spot mantle plume, an Asian cold mantle plume, an African hot mantle plume and a South Pacific hot mantle plume; layer G performs circumferential displacement motion from east to west relative to an e...