US Patent Issued to DONGGUAN IN-MIND TECHNOLOGY on June 10 for "Electric pencil sharpener with delay function" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,258, issued on June 10, was assigned to DONGGUAN IN-MIND TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Electric pencil sharpener with delay function" was invented by Weidong Qiu (Guangdong, China), Kai Xu (Guangdong, China) and Hua Chen (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric pencil sharpener with delay function includes a motor, a drive assembly, a gear assembly and a cutter assembly. The drive assembly includes a connecting rod, a drive shaft and a start trigger, a stop trigger, and a thrust plate. The connecting rod is moved backward to drive the start trigger to trigger the motor, and synchronously rotated with the...