ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,982, issued on May 13, was assigned to GUAY GUAY TRADING Co. LTD. (Changhua County, Taiwan).

"Illuminator accessory exchange structure" was invented by Yin-Hsi Liao (Changhua County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illuminator accessory exchange structure includes an illuminator body arranged on a toy gun, a first connecting portion arranged on the illuminator body, a sleeve element sleeved outside of the illuminator body, a second connecting portion arranged on the sleeve element, a shaping portion arranged on an outer surface of the sleeve element, a front cover element arranged on a front end of the illuminator body and t...