US Patent Issued to AOB Products on July 14 for "Handheld electronic fish scale" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,861, issued on July 14, was assigned to AOB Products Co. (Columbia, Mo.).

"Handheld electronic fish scale" was invented by Dennis W. Cauley Jr. (Fayette, Mo.), James Tayon (Moberly, Mo.), Mark Dalton (Columbia, Mo.), Kyle Martin (Columbia, Mo.), Matthew Kinamore (Columbia, Mo.) and Curtis Smith (Columbia, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic scale holdable by a hand of a user. The electronic scale can have a handle portion sized and shaped for an ergonomic fit to a user's hand holding the handle. The electronic scale can have a batter compartment, such as in a head of the scale, for removably receiving a battery. A load c...