ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,120, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FOSITEK Corp. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Repeatedly, quickly and removably connectable retaining mechanism" 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 mechanism includes an open topped seat having a rear inner stop surface and two lateral guide sections; and a sliding clamp member received in the seat and including mating guide sections slidably engaged with the guide sections and a rear curved elastic section having a free end pressing against the inner stop surface. The sliding clamp member fur...