US Patent Issued to Phaeton Manufacturing on May 5 for "Umbrella" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,284, issued on May 5, was assigned to Phaeton Manufacturing LLC (Nantong, China).

"Umbrella" was invented by Xiong Luo (Nantong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An umbrella includes a column having a middle portion; an upper nest; a lower nest; a plurality of long rods; a plurality of short rods each; a crank handle assembly disposed on the middle portion of the column. The lower nest has a plurality of first long rod grooves on a periphery of the lower nest; the crank handle assembly includes a housing and a crank handle, correspondingly, the housing has a plurality of second long rod grooves. The umbrella of the present inventio...