ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,901, issued on July 22, was assigned to MACBO TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Denver).

"Ergonomic hand grip strengthener" was invented by Yiming Gao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ergonomic hand grip strengthener includes a front operation handle for ergonomic placement of an index finger, a middle finger, a ring finger and a pinky finger of the holding hand of the user, a rear operation handle for abutting against a thumb and a palm of the holding hand of the user, and a strength adjustment assembly for adjusting a resistance applied to approaching movement between the front operation handle and the rear operation handle."

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