ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,995, issued on April 21, was assigned to Xiamen Lota International Co. Ltd. (Xiamen, China).

"Magnet bushing structure for pull-out faucet and pull-out faucet" was invented by Qiang Huang (Xiamen, China), Chunsen Lin (Xiamen, China) and Qian Chen (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnet bushing structure for a pull-out faucet comprises a sheath and a bushing. The sheath is configured for being fixedly connected to a water outlet bent tube of the pull-out faucet, and the sheath comprises an installation channel. The bushing is at least disposed with a magnetic member to enable the bushing to magnetically absorb a pull-o...