US Patent Issued to 8EIGHTS EOOD on July 7 for "Device for placing a basketball net" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,249, issued on July 7, was assigned to 8EIGHTS EOOD (Staro Myasto, Bulgaria).

"Device for placing a basketball net" was invented by Marc Alastair Bijl (Maassluis, Netherlands) and Charles Franciscus Joseph Beuker (Maassluis, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device (1) for placing a basketball net (2), comprising: a housing (3, 14) with a storage space (4, 16) for storing the basketball net, wherein the basketball net is stored in the storage space, the basketball net comprising a plurality of attachment members (5, 12) for releasable attachment of the basketball net to a lower side of a basketball ...