US Patent Issued to COURT 16 on Aug. 11 for "Ball collecting and returning installation" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,899, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to COURT 16 INC. (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

"Ball collecting and returning installation" was invented by Anthony Evrard (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ball collecting and returning installation for a court surface includes a back wall having a ball inlet opening and a ball outlet opening, a damping net spaced apart from and in front of the back wall and which has an opening at least partly aligning with the ball outlet opening, and a trough below the damping net and extending from the back wall to a location in front of the damping net. The trough guides balls landing therein to the ball inlet op...