ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,897, issued on Feb. 24.
"Portable stand" was invented by Dustin Hobbs (Clackamas, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable stand includes a rigid frame portion, an actuator portion synchronously coupled to a transfer shaft, a plurality of rotatable leg assemblies, a plurality of transfer shaft pulleys corresponding to the respective leg assemblies, and a plurality of leg flexible connectors synchronously coupling the respective leg assemblies to the transfer shaft through the transfer shaft pulleys. A portable stand may include a linear actuator coupled to a transfer shaft by a leg pull cam, and the transfer shaft synchronously...