ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,728, issued on July 7, was assigned to Ningbo Kony Metal Products Co Ltd. (Cixi, China).
"Retractable baby gate" was invented by Guowen Lin (Fuqing, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure belongs to the field of gates and discloses a retractable baby gate. The retractable baby gate includes at least a piece of gate fabric; a roller, mounted on one side of the gate fabric, wherein a rolling shaft is coaxially arranged in the roller, one end of the gate fabric is fixed to the rolling shaft and winds the periphery of the rolling shaft, a longitudinal opening through which the gate fabric comes in and goes out is formed in th...