ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,684, issued on July 14.
"Training device for cue sports" was invented by Pedro L. Perez (Sarasota, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cue sports training device, including a ball cap piece; a strike portion with a strike indicator that is vertically rotatable from folded-up to a folded-down configuration, a direction member with a direction indicator that is horizontally rotatable to enable adjustment of a deviation angle; such that an intended direction of the object ball is indicated by the direction indicator of the direction member when a cue ball impacts with the strike indicator after the cue ball follows a target direction ...