US Patent Issued on March 17 for "Awning apparatus" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,784, issued on March 17.

"Awning apparatus" was invented by Zhun-An Ma (Ningbo, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An awning assembly with a mount portion, an extendable bar assembly, an upper canopy being retractable to a compact configuration adjacent to the mount portion and extendable to an extended position upon extension of the extendable bar assembly to provide shade from above, a lower canopy coupled with the extendable bar assembly and extendable therefrom to provide shade from a side position. The extendable bar assembly comprises a first roller coupled with the upper canopy, a second roller coupled with the lower canopy...