ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,256, issued on May 5, was assigned to Wenqing Sun (Changsha, China).

"House" was invented by Wenqing Sun (Changsha, China), Cheng Tian (Changsha, China), Hongyan Zhang (Changsha, China) and Yu Tian (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A house includes a base, a house body and a partition plate. The house body is located above the base. Two sides of the partition plate are abutted against the base and the house body, respectively. The base, the house body and the partition plate are configured to be relatively movable. When natural disasters occur, the house body can move relative to the partition plate and the base to absorb...