ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,483, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Xiamen Lota International Co. Ltd. (Xiamen, China) and Lota Xiamen Industry Co. Ltd. (Xiamen City, China).

"Pull-out faucet" was invented by Yan Zhang (Xiamen, China), Liming Ye (Xiamen, China), Hao Li (Xiamen, China), Xinzong Huang (Xiamen, China) and Chuanbao Zhu (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pull-out faucet includes a faucet body, a pull-out pipe, a magnetic sensing component, and a pull-out guiding component. The pull-out pipe is pullably disposed on the faucet body, and the pull-out guiding component is detachably disposed on the faucet body. The pull-out guiding component ...