ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,533, issued on Aug. 5.
"Adjustable height topiary" was invented by Jeffery J. Kacines (Allen, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A topiary arrangement with foliage tiers having stems that are telescopic with respect to each other in order to achieve desired spacings between the foliage tiers. Each foliage tier includes a spherical foliage bundle with a tubular stem extending downwardly therefrom. Successive tiers of the foliage tiers have tubular stems that are somewhat different in diameters so that the stems are telescopic with respect to neighbor stems. A respective O-ring is stretched around the foliage stem to function as an ad...