ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,510, issued on May 12, was assigned to CREATIVE SYSTEMS Co. Ltd. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Anchor" was invented by Hideki Yano (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anchor is provided whose number of processes of work at the time of performance of installation work can be reduced and which can selectively fix a plurality of types of fixing targets. An anchor 10 includes: a shaft 22 to be buried in a ground; a head 24 into which a propulsive force for propelling the shaft 22 in the ground is inputted, the head 24 being provided on an upper end portion 22a of the shaft 22; and a sleeve 26 having a tubular peripheral wall portion ...