ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,288, issued on March 31.

"Desktop elastic launch game device" was invented by Chung-Piao Tsao (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A desktop elastic launch game device includes a carrying body in the form of a rectangular flat board and having a predetermined height; a wall body higher than the carrying body and circumferentially arranged around a perimeter of the carrying body; a separation board arranged on the carrying body to have two ends mounted to the wall body and being formed, in a bottom portion, with a hollowed portion corresponding to the through holes; a plurality of elastic bodies, each of which has two ...