ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,958, issued on March 25, was assigned to Yantai Jereh Petroleum Equipment & Technologies Co. Ltd. (Yantai, China).

"Mounting bracket and auxiliary mechanism" was invented by Jianwei Wang (Shandong, China), Xiaolei Ji (Shandong, China), Rikui Zhang (Shandong, China), Peng Zhang (Shandong, China), Zhuqing Mao (Shandong, China), Chunqiang Lan (Shandong, China) and Yipeng Wu (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mounting bracket and an auxiliary mechanism are disclosed. The mounting bracket includes a mounting base, a first mounting plate, a second mounting plate and a tubular connection structure; the first mounting plate a...