ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,279, issued on July 22.

"Manual hydraulic cigarette manufacturing machine" was invented by Jiandong Liu (Ruian Zhejiang, China) and Guosheng Song (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to the field of cigarette making, and discloses a manual hydraulic cigarette manufacturing machine, which comprises a housing and a frame arranged in the housing. The frame is provided with a driving shaft, a pressing assembly, a discharge spoon, a transmission assembly, a swing arm, a push assembly, and a rebound assembly. In the present invention, linkage between the driving shaft and the swing arm is generate...