ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,980, issued on June 30.
"Portable outdoor flooring apparatus" was invented by Tyrone Pickens (Indianapolis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable outdoor flooring apparatus for creating a stable floor outdoors includes a flooring section having a first panel and a second panel. A hinge couples together the first panel and the second panel. Each of the first and second panels have a top side, a bottom side, and a peripheral wall. The top side of the first panel is coplanar with the top side of the second panel when the first and second panels are in a deployed condition. Each of the first and second panels also have interior edges ...