ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,691, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to FOSITEK Corp. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Pressure relief structure for floating joint" was invented by Chun-Han Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Yung-Chih Tseng (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Dai-Rong Li (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure relief assembly for a floating joint includes a hollow fixed retainer having an inner wall groove; an adapter joint having a first section assembled to the fixed retainer, a second section extending through a closed side of the fixed retainer having a through hole, and an axial abutting surface formed therebetween; a slidable memb...