ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,224, issued on July 14, was assigned to NINGBO KAIBO GROUP Co. LTD. (Ningbo, China).

"Anti-scald trickling clothes steamer" was invented by Jie bo Yan (Ningbo, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anti-scald trickling clothes steamer belongs to ironing devices. All water in a water tank of existing electric kettle clothes steamers is heated, so scalding is likely to be caused. In the invention, an atomizing device is arranged in a main body and connected with a water tank, and receives water automatically trickling from the water tank by means of a difference in water level, and when the atomizing device heats water to generate st...