ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,054, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Shenzhen Chenbei Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Wire connection protection device" was invented by Lei Liu (Shenzhen, China), JiaJian Chen (Shenzhen, China), XianGui Xu (Shenzhen, China), XiangYu Yi (Shenzhen, China), HaoYuan Lin (Shenzhen, China) and XianFeng Jia (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a wire connection protection device of a cooking appliance and an air fryer. The wire connection protection device includes a rigid insulating sleeve sleeved over the connection between the internal wire and power wire of the cooking appliance, ...