ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,078, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to HANWIT PRECISION INDUSTRIES LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Fixing device" was invented by Ying-Chih Tseng (New Taipei, Taiwan), Ming-De Wu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Ching-Kai Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing device includes a docking element having a through hole on the base thereof and two fixing portions at two sides of the base for fixing to a preset first panel, a positioning mechanism, and a rotating mechanism. Turning the rotating element generates a linkage between the rotating sleeve and the positioning element, and forms a rotating and lifting displacemen...