ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,209, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to BESTWAY INFLATABLES & MATERIAL CORP. (Shanghai).
"Inflatable water slide" was invented by Xianglin Zeng (Shanghai), Yunzhe Ban (Shanghai) and Qingshui Song (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water slide is provided including a slide way and an inflatable body fixedly connected to a bottom of the slide way. The inflatable body includes an upper sheet and a lower sheet connected to the upper sheet along a plurality of seams, thus forming a plurality of inflatable tubes. The inflatable tubes are adjacent to one another in a length direction of the slide way and each extends axially in a ...