ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,944, issued on March 17, was assigned to AHWON Corp. (Gunpo-si, South Korea).

"Grease barrel pump for preventing presence of residual grease with grease spray function and variable grease discharge function" was invented by Juho Lee (Gwacheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a multipurpose grease barrel pump for preventing a presence of residual grease inside a grease barrel, which may easily adjust a discharge amount of grease, in which the multipurpose grease barrel pump is based on grease residue prevention type, has a branch and shock prevention structure, enables con...