ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,327, issued on April 29, was assigned to Jiangxi Risheng Precision Hardware Co. Ltd (Yingtan, China).

"Retractable data cable" was invented by Linqiang Zhao (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retractable data cable is provided, including a housing, a conductive component, and a winding component. The winding component includes a first turntable and a second turntable, the first turntable is rotatably installed to a top surface of a first circuit board, the first turntable and the second turntable are clamped to respectively fix at a top surface and an undersurface of the conductive carrier, and a coil spring is install...