ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,539, issued on Aug. 11.

"Snack bag holder device" was invented by Alta Craig (Bastrop, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A snack bag holder device for storing bags of snacks without crushing the bags of snacks includes a panel that has a lobe portion extending upwardly from the panel and the panel has a hole extending through the lobe portion. A fastener is extendable through the hole to engage a support surface for suspending the panel on the support surface. A plurality of bowls is each coupled to the panel to contain respective ones of a plurality of bags of snacks. Additionally, each bowl of the plurality of bowls is concavely...