ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,715, issued on April 7, was assigned to KING SLIDE WORKS Co. LTD. (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan) and KING SLIDE TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

"Driving mechanism" was invented by Ken-Ching Chen (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Shun-Ho Yang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Chi-Chih Chou (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Chih-Hsin Yeh (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan) and Chun-Chiang Wang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving mechanism is provided and includes a first casing, a second casing and an operating member. The second casing is arranged on the first casing. The operating member is movably mounted on one of the first casin...