US Patent Issued to Xiamen Lota International on June 30 for "Faucet" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,957, issued on June 30, was assigned to Xiamen Lota International Co. Ltd. (Xiamen, China).

"Faucet" was invented by Liming Ye (Xiamen, China), Shuanglin Bai (Xiamen, China) and Chuanbao Zhu (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A faucet includes a housing, a countertop mounting assembly, a fixed seat, a valve assembly, and a water outlet pipe. The countertop mounting assembly includes a mounting seat and a locking assembly, and the mounting seat is operatively coupled to at least part of the locking assembly to drive the at least part of the locking assembly to abut a lower side of a countertop to secure the mounting seat to...