ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,918, issued on Jan. 13.
"Hanging umbrella structure" was invented by Jing Wu (Taizhou, China), Huanchao Chen (Taizhou, China) and Junhui Zheng (Taizhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a hanging umbrella structure including a vertical rod, a horizontal arm rod, an umbrella cover skeleton, wherein the umbrella cover skeleton is arranged on the horizontal arm rod, a first connecting rod, a second connecting rod, wherein one end of the first connecting rod and the second connecting rod are correspondingly hinged to two different points on the vertical rod, and the other ends of the first connecting ...