ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,799, issued on April 1, was assigned to Luxshare Precision Industry Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Fixing belt adjusting mechanism and wearable device" was invented by Haiou Xiao (Shenzhen, China), Tingxin Xiao (Shenzhen, China), Heng Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Xiaolong Liu (Shenzhen, China) and Guanghong Yu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing belt adjusting mechanism and a wearable device are provided. The fixing belt adjusting mechanism includes a fixing base, a ratchet wheel, a driving member, a knob, a reset piece and a transmission wheel. The driving member may be rotated by the knob, so that a pawl drives the r...