ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,389, issued on Oct. 20.

"Creative light-emitting racket" was invented by Banglin Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a creative light-emitting racket, including a plate body and a grip, the grip is fixedly installed beneath the plate body, a set of or a plurality of sets of slots with a certain depth are formed on the plate body, and the slots are formed to be slots of any shapes or slot holes of any shapes penetrating the plate body; and adapted light-emitting members are installed inside the slots, and a plurality of lamp beads are arranged on the light-emitting members."

The patent was filed on Jan. 10...