ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,213, issued on April 21, was assigned to Crowntec (Jiang Xi) Sports Technology Co. Ltd. (Jiujiang City, China).

"Expansion connector for outdoor entertainment equipment" was invented by Cheng-Wu Yu (Jiujiang City, China), Wei Zhu (Jiujiang City, China) and Li-Ju Hsiang (Jiujiang City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expansion connector for an outdoor entertainment equipment, includes a base plate and a mounting tube, the base plate includes a flat plate portion, and two wing portions formed by bending from two opposite sides of the flat plate portion toward a same direction, the two opposite sides of the flat plate portion c...