US Patent Issued on March 24 for "Tree step" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,113, issued on March 24.

"Tree step" was invented by Shawn Trevor Walters (Sardinia, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tree step for use in climbing a tree while mobile hunting, and as part of a ring of steps while saddle hunting, which can be useful for resisting slippage and movement when a hunter applies side pressure to the step. In general, the tree step includes a unitary body having at least one concave surface for contacting the convex surface of a tree trunk. The concave surface of the tree step can provide a large surface area of contact with the tree. The step also includes a second surface coming together with the fi...