ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,698, issued on June 17, was assigned to SHENZHEN MAIKANGXIN MEDICAL ROBOT Co. LTD (Shenzhen, China).

"Transfer machine" was invented by Qian Li (Shenzhen, China), Xuehai Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Tianqi Zhao (Shenzhen, China) and Yuanchen Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transfer machine includes a main body assembly and a lifting assembly. The main body assembly includes two lifting rods capable of moving up and down and two seat plates facing the lifting rods. Each seat plate can rotate around the corresponding lifting rod thereby enabling the two seat plates to close or separate from each other. The lifting asse...