ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,405, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Fositek Corp. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Repeatedly, quickly and removably connectable retaining device" was invented by Han Cheng Zhu (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Ya Chih Huang (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retaining device includes a seat and a swingable clamp member. The seat is repeatedly, quickly and removably connectable to a predetermined substrate and has a stop section transversely extending over an open topped receiving space thereof, and the swingable clamp member has a middle section pivotally connected to the seat to be received in the open topped rece...