ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,504, issued on July 28, was assigned to Motoseal Components Oy (Rauma, Finland).

"Garden tool" was invented by Jussi Heino (Rauma, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the presented solution, a garden tool includes a handle and a tool part, which handle is attached to the tool part to constitute a pulling handle. Then, the garden tool is mainly used by pulling from its handle. The handle includes an operating part which is grabbed when using the garden tool and a connecting part to attach the handle to the tool part. Between the operating part and the connecting part, there is an angle such that the axial direction of the operat...