ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,810, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to VICTOR RACKETS INDUSTRIAL CORP. (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Artificial shuttlecock" was invented by Shu-Jung Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Tzu-Wei Wang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hsin-Chen Wang (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial shuttlecock includes a ball head, a plurality of feathers, and a plurality of stems. Each of the feathers includes a notch. The notch is disposed on an outer edge of the feather. A ball head end of the stem is connected to the ball head, and a feather end is connected to the feather. The stem includes a body, which tapers from the end close to the ball end to the fe...