US Patent Issued on July 28 for "Net holder and device for mounting the net holder" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,347, issued on July 28.

"Net holder and device for mounting the net holder" was invented by Alexander Alfonso (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A net holder for a basketball net, comprising a closed hoop, a net, an insert ring open in one portion arranged circumferentially in the hoop, wherein the insert ring can be inserted in the inner circumference of the hoop, wherein the open portion of the insert ring is angled with its ends so that two pins oriented in the same direction from the plane of the insert ring protrude from same and are connected in turn to one another by a crosspiece with a fixed and a releasable bearing for t...