ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,434, issued on May 20, was assigned to GUDENG PRECISION INDUSTRIAL Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).
"Locking device and container using the same" was invented by Ming-Chien Chiu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Zheng-Hong Huang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chia-Wei Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locking device is provided adjacent to a side opening of a container and includes a handle having a driving section and being pivotally turnably mounted to a top of the container; a long bar-shaped locking member having two opposite ends pivotally connected to the top and a bottom of the container to be turnable toward or away from ...