ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,931, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Wonderland Switzerland AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Side impact protecting block and child safety seat with the same" was invented by Zhengwen Guo (Dongguan, China), Ruyi Li (Dongguan, China) and Yingzhong Chen (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a side impact protecting block according to the present application, configured to be detachably installed to a child safety seat, the side impact protecting block comprising a housing, a slider and an engagement member. The slider is at least partially accommodated in the housing, and operable from outsid...