ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,571, issued on Sept. 29.
"Suction cup article for a urinal screen" was invented by Jeffrey Scott Crevier (Dalton, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suction cup article includes at least one suction cup unit having a suction cup, a neck, and a head. The head points in a direction away from the direction in which the suction cup is oriented to suction to a surface. The head has a point at a distal end of the head, and a base that is adjacent to, and wider than the neck. The head can be passed through an opening in a basin article such as a urinal screen, resulting in the neck being disposed in the opening, and the head, having a ba...