ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,162, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to WISTRON CORP. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Joint auxiliary assembly and joint assembly" was invented by Yu Wei Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joint auxiliary assembly and a joint assembly, where the joint auxiliary assembly includes mounting barrel, first elastic component, restricting barrel, electronic control assembly and liquid detecting unit. A side of the mounting barrel has blocking portions, and mounting barrel is connected to first joint. First elastic component is disposed in mounting barrel. An end of first elastic component presses against blocking po...