ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,744, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Jinhua Gica Baby Products Co. Ltd. (Zhejiang, China).

"Foldable bathtub" was invented by Xiaoyu Zhang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a foldable bathtub, including: a bathtub body, and a temperature detection unit connected to the bathtub body. The bathtub body includes a foldable basin body formed by sequentially sealing and splicing a plurality of rigid plates and flexible plates, the foldable basin body is folded and contracted along splicing joints between the rigid plates and the flexible plates, and a direction of the folding and contraction is perpendicular...