ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,815, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Seung Bae (Seoul, South Korea).

"Resilient member for guiding smooth pumping of pumping apparatus, and pumping apparatus comprising same" was invented by Jae Hwan Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the elastic member of the present invention, specific structures of the lower support portion, the first resilient portion, the second resilient portion, the elastic structure forming unit and the upper support portion are provided so that pumping operation of a pumping device can be smoothly induced; a flow of fluid flowing according to the pumping operation can be ind...