ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,724, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to OME TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Linear guideway and upper dustproof member thereof" was invented by Jo-Hsuan Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Min Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yue-Ru Sung (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Jhih-Jie Luo (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An upper dustproof member of a linear guideway includes a connection segment and two floating dustproof segments that are respectively connected to two opposite sides of the connection segment. Each of the two floating dustproofing segments has a carrying bar and at least one rib that is connected to the carrying ...