ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,918, issued on June 23, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for storing and retrieving with a shoe gripping apparatus" was invented by Heba Nabil Saif (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Hala El-Wakeel (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Asma Alhilal (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Nourah Almanaa (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Nouf Altuwaijri (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shoe organizer unit, a method of using a shoe organizer unit, and a method for storing shoes in a plurality of shoe storing shelves of a shoe organizer unit are described. The shoe organizer unit includes a plurality of shoe s...