ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,803, issued on March 18.

"Snap spring dismounting and mounting tool" was invented by Jie Gong (Changde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a snap spring dismounting and mounting tool, including: an outer housing; a dismounting and mounting assembly, two ends of which can be detachably clamped in the outer housing, respectively; a pressing rod, which is movably disposed on the outer housing and can be in contact connection with or disengaged from the dismounting and mounting assembly; and an elastic member, which is disposed in the outer housing, is in contact connection with the pressing rod, and pr...