ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,689, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Sulian (Chongqing) Intelligent Control Technology Co. Ltd. (Chongqing, China).

"Snap-locking connector" was invented by Shulin Cao (Chongqing, China), Ming Xu (Chongqing, China), Xuyang Li (Chongqing, China), Taiming Shen (Chongqing, China), Chuan Zhang (Chongqing, China), Zongjun Han (Chongqing, China), Ming Zhang (Chongqing, China), Bo Liu (Chongqing, China), Linjie Tian (Chongqing, China), Qingyang Pu (Chongqing, China) and Yuqian Jiang (Chongqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a snap-locking connector, which includes a locking block, a connecting sleev...