ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,564, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ZHENGZHOU DEWENWILS NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., TLD. (Zhengzhou, China).

"Electronic timer socket and timing setting method thereof" was invented by Yuan Ren (Zhengzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an electronic timer socket and a timing setting method thereof. A user-defined timing mode, a Daily timing mode, a 7-Day cycle timing mode, a CTD timing mode and a normally-on/normally-off timing mode are provided through key setting, and a two-way socket circuit may be independently controlled to be turned on or off through the above modes, so that the advantages of simple setting...