ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,324, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to FOSITEK Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Pressure relief structure for floating joint" was invented by Chun-Han Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yung-Chih Tseng (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Dai-Rong Li (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure relief structure for floating joint includes a hollow fixed retainer have an inner wall groove; an adapter joint having a first section assembled to the fixed retainer and a second section extended to a holed closed side of the fixed retainer, and a shoulder portion formed between the first and second sides; a slidable member including a base flange ...