ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,980, issued on July 21, was assigned to GUANGDONG SOPHON INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (Dongguan, China) and SOPHON TECHNOLOGY USA INC. (Okemos, Mich.).

"Mixing mechanism, mixing device, and mixing method" was invented by Chunyang Zheng (Dongguan, China), Hao Zhou (Dongguan, China), Linbo Li (Dongguan, China) and Dechao Liang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a mixing mechanism, a mixing device, and a mixing method. The mixing mechanism comprises a support plate, a stop support, a support platform, and a drive unit. A contact point exists between the drive unit and the support plate, and...