ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,776, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to JIANGSU GUORUN ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Huaian, China).

"Integrated inflator/deflator air pump, mounting structure and inflatable product" was invented by Houxi Rao (Huaian, China), Lei Chen (Huaian, China), Jianbing Yin (Huaian, China) and Xia Zhong (Huaian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated inflator/deflator air pump, a mounting structure and an inflatable product. The air pump includes a pump body. Function buttons are pressed to drive a linkage plate to move, such that a first microswitch in the pump body is triggered so as to start a blower assembly. The function buttons are press...