ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,444, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SHENZHEN NEEWER TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (Shenzhen, China).

"Switching apparatus and camera tripod" was invented by Jun Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Yan Ke (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a switching apparatus and a camera tripod. The switching apparatus includes: a connecting seat, a camera fixing seat, and a bracket fixing seat. An end surface of a first end of the connecting seat is provided with a connecting slot with a circular cross-section, and the rotating potion is provided with a sliding clamping slot along a circumferential direction of the connecting slot; the ...