ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,531, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Dongguan Goldenhot PLASTIC & HARDWARE Products Co. Ltd. (Dongguan, China).

"Towel heating barrel" was invented by Xiuhua Zhao (Dongguan, China) and Weiqi Chao (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A towel heating barrel, comprising a barrel body, a warm air assembly and a heating circuit arranged inside the barrel body, and also comprising an air duct bracket arranged inside an inner tank to guide the warm air blown out by the warm air assembly from an air outlet to outside of the barrel body, and a weight micro switch elastic head connected in series with the heating circuit and co...