ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,523, issued on July 15, was assigned to Polygroup Macau Ltd. (BVI) (Tortola, British Virgin Islands).
"Powered tree construction with rotation limiting" was invented by Chi Yin Alan Leung (Apleichau, Hong Kong), Ricky Tong (Shenzhen, China), Chi Kin Samuel Kwok (Shenzhen, China) and Chang-Jun He (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transfer system to facilitate the transfer of electrical power between tree trunk sections of an artificial tree is disclosed. The power transfer system can advantageously enable neighboring tree trunk sections to be electrically connected without the need to rotationally align the tree ...