US Patent Issued on Sept. 1 for "Fish filleting stand device" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,356, issued on Sept. 1.

"Fish filleting stand device" was invented by Marilyn Kritzman (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Anthony Tate (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fish filleting stand device includes a base panel and a pair of base panel walls extending upwardly from the base panel. The base panel walls are adjustable for a distance between the base panel walls to abut a fish between the base panel walls. A gill post extends upwardly from a base panel top side. A coupler is releasably retains a gill of the fish to the gill post. An extension panel is removably couplable to the base panel such that an extension panel top...