ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,605, issued on March 31, was assigned to PUYOUNG IND. Co. LTD. (Nonsan-si, South Korea).

"Fruit tree screen" was invented by Young Jin Koh (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a fruit tree screen having a structure preventing damage to protective sheets without using eyelets to connect the protective sheets to each other. When protective sheets (20) are connected to each other using a connecting member (40), since the protective sheets (20) are connected to each other by an elastic ring body (41), when the protective sheets (20) move due to wind or the like, the elastic ring body (41) absorbs impact while b...