US Patent Issued on June 30 for "Device for opening and tying a dog poop bag" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,417, issued on June 30.

"Device for opening and tying a dog poop bag" was invented by John James Lombardi Jr. (Fuquay Varina, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A one-handed method for opening and tying a dog poop bag that embodies a device that can be held between two fingers. The device has a planar base plate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. Three prongs extend from the first surface, wherein the three prongs define a triangular arrangement along the first surface. A notch radially extending from a periphery of the base plate wherein a void defined by the notch occupies at least eighty perce...