ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,383, issued on June 3.

"Connector for curtain rods" was invented by Mingbo Yuan (Zhejiang, China), Jinyan Wang (Zhejiang, China) and Diandian Wang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector for curtain rods comprises a connector body for connecting two adjacent curtain rods, wherein the connector body is formed by splicing a first connecting part and a second connecting part, and an adjusting bolt is inserted between the first connecting part and the second connecting part; wherein, when two curtain rods are respectively inserted into two ends of the spliced first connecting part and the spliced second connecting part...