ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,653, issued on June 10, was assigned to Coman Photo Equipment (Zhongshan) Co. Ltd. (Zhongshan, China).
"Rapid telescoping support pole" was invented by Yao Liu (Zhuhai, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rapid telescoping support pole, a photographic equipment, and a hiking pole having an operation driving member, a transverse driving wheel, and a vertical transmission wheel cooperating with said transverse driving wheel; the vertical transmission wheel driving multi-section inner tubes cooperatively to make the multi-stage outer tube conversion between a telescopic unlocked state and a telescopic locked state so as to achieve th...