ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,475, issued on April 15, was assigned to SHIMANO INC. (Sakai, Japan).

"Telescopic apparatus operating system and telescopic apparatus" was invented by Toyoto Shirai (Sakai, Japan), Yuki Sakagawa (Sakai, Japan), Norikazu Taki (Sakai, Japan), Akihiro Nozaki (Sakai, Japan), Noor Ashyikkin Binti Mohd Noor (Sakai, Japan) and Kentaro Kosaka (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A telescopic apparatus comprises a first tube, a second tube configured to be telescopically coupled to the first tube, and an electric cable connector provided to one of the first tube and the second tube. The electric cable connector is configured to be deta...