ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,302, issued on June 17.
"Clothes hanger" was invented by Markus Seiser (Munchenstein, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clothes hanger has two limbs, each of which has a limb arm. The limb arms are elastically connected together via a housing cassette. The housing cassette forms the apex of an angle, and the limb arms form the two legs of the angle. The size of the angle can be reduced by pivoting the limbs about a pivot axis, thereby building up a restoring force by means of the elastic connection. The limbs are secured against an accidental pivoting of the limb arms via at least one locking mechanism, and corresponding b...