ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,252, issued on March 3.

"Portable hanging knitting needle and accessory holder" was invented by Paula Carol (Huntington, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device for storing and displaying knitting supplies has a vinyl backing, first, second and third rows of pockets formed from planar, substantially rectangular portions of pocket material attached to the vinyl backing at 3 of 4 edges of the planar, substantially rectangular portions thereby forming an opening, an edge trim arranged at respective edges of the planar, substantially rectangular portions of the first, second and third rows of pockets to support installing an...