ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,457, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Gemmy Industries Corp. (Coppell, Texas).
"Projecting decoration" was invented by Cheng-Chun Zhang (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A projecting decoration comprises an outer shell, a light assembly, a light-blocking cover and a controller. The light assembly is mounted inside the outer shell. The light-blocking cover is mounted at the light assembly and has multiple hollowed-out graphic portions, which respectively correspond to multiple light units of the light assembly. The controller is electrically connected to and controls each light unit to emit light, which passes through ...