ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,799, issued on March 3, was assigned to JINGJIN EQUIPMENT INC. (Dezhou, China).

"Filter plate handle and filter plate for filter press" was invented by Mingjie Yang (Dezhou, China), Guozhi Liu (Dezhou, China), Xuegang Zhang (Dezhou, China) and Xin Wang (Dezhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter plate handle is provided, an insertion shaft of which protrudes out of two side plate surfaces of a fixed plate, and the insertion shaft is fixedly connected to the fixed plate, portions protruding out of the two sides of the fixed plate are a first section and a second section respectively, the first section of the insertion shaft...