US Patent Issued on May 26 for "Mechanical pickleball scorekeeper" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,567, issued on May 26.

"Mechanical pickleball scorekeeper" was invented by Richard Eklund (Las Vegas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanical pickleball scorekeeper for enabling a user to track a score for each team in a pickleball match, and for tracking a server number during the match, has a housing sized and shaped to be hand-held by the user. Three dials are operably mounted on the housing. One of the three dials is a first team score dial that includes numbers circumferentially spaced around the top surface. A second dial is a second team score dial that includes numbers circumferentially spaced around the top surface...