ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,312, issued on May 5, was assigned to BESTWAY INFLATABLES & MATERIAL CORP. (Shanghai).

"Inflatable product, and manufacturing apparatus and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Xianglin Zeng (Shanghai), Yihua You (Shanghai), Xiaguang Xu (Shanghai), Bingrong Wu (Shanghai), Jiabao Jiang (Dongguan, China), Jing Wang (Dongguan, China) and Qingshui Song (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inflatable product is provided, including a first wall, a second wall, and a plurality of internal tensioning members connecting the first and second walls. Each internal tensioning member includes a first fixing strip and a second fixing...