US Patent Issued to Xiamen Lota International on Feb. 10 for "Water stopping mechanism configured for water outlet device and water outlet device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,774, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Xiamen Lota International Co. Ltd. (Xiamen, China).

"Water stopping mechanism configured for water outlet device and water outlet device" was invented by Xuedong Wang (Fujian, China), Jinyong Chen (Fujian, China), Yingan Li (Fujian, China) and Chuanbao Zhu (Fujian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water stopping mechanism configured for a water outlet device comprises one or more pad members configured for elastic deformation. The one or more pad members are configured to be movably disposed in a water outlet chamber of the water outlet device. The one or more pad members at least define ...