ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,212, issued on June 30, was assigned to Coman Photo Equipment (Zhongshan) Co. Ltd. (Zhongshan City, China).
"Compact tripod" was invented by Yao Liu (Zhuhai, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact tripod, comprising a clamping portion, a ball head, a buffer portion and an accommodating ball support portion; the buffer portion is pressed by the ball head and elastically abuts the clamping portion, thus gradually locking; the clamping portion and the ball head are combined to form a through-cavity from top to bottom; the accommodating ball support portion provides an accommodation cavity for the ball head, and the accommodating...