ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,806, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MAXTON ENGINEERING LTD. (Central, Hong Kong).

"Shade assembly for a wagon" was invented by Shou Qiang Zhu (La Verne, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shade assembly for a wagon having a collapsible shade frame that transitions between an assembled state for providing shade and a disassembled state for stowing. The shade frame has at least a pair of long rods each having a distal end and a mounting end removably mountable to a mounting holder on a frame of the wagon. The long rods each has a plurality of rod sections in the disassemble state, and the rod sections are removably connected e...