ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,568, issued on Jan. 27.
"Game board assembly" was invented by Ronald C Hawkins (Taylor, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A game board assembly is configured to do play an adjacent ball game. The game board assembly has a game board further comprising thirty-six cavities arranged in a six-by-six grid. A plurality of posts is arranged above, beneath, to the left and to the right of each cavity. A plurality of rubber bands is wrapped around each row of the plurality of posts. Netting posts are arranged on outer edges of the game board. A net is arranged on the netting posts. bouncing a ball onto the game board results in the ball be...