ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,282, issued on May 5.

"Item of jewelery" was invented by Aleksey Ostanin (Krasnogorsk, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for reversibly mounting an object, the system comprising a base having a first region and a second region in rotatable communication with the first region such that in a first configuration, the regions are not coplanar and in a second configuration they are. Also provided is a system for removably mounting objects, the system comprising a base having a first end defining a first cross section; and a lever having a second end defining a second cross section, the lever in rotatable communication with the ...