ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,086, issued on June 16.
"Large net storage in a bag" was invented by Nicholas J. Markette (Tempe, Ariz.) and Carl J. Metz (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodied invention is an organized way of storing and transporting a net that is used in a field sport, like soccer or volleyball, where the net corners include connecting tabs inside the storage bag. The net is then stored by a combination of folding and rolling the net, and then pulling the storage bag inside out and around the sporting net. When taking the net out of the bag, the net is pulled out of the other end of the bag, and the labeled corners are read...