ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,049, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to L&P Property Management Co. (Carthage, Mo.).

"Spring mechanism for rocker assembly and rocker assembly comprising the same" was invented by Jun Chen (Jiaxing, China), Zongfeng Guo (Jiaxing, China), Ziliu Pan (Jiaxing, China), Guoming Shen (Jiaxing, China), Lei Mao (Jiaxing, China), Xiaoli Chen (Jiaxing, China), Jiahao Wu (Jiaxing, China), Patrick Third (Ooltewah, Tenn.), Jason Stokesbary (Georgetown, Ky.) and Jason Carr (Thaxton, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rocker box for use on a rocker chair is provided. The rocker box includes a base plate; a rocker plate spaced from the base plat...