US Patent Issued to PICKLETIME SPORTS on July 21 for "Pickleball scorekeeping device" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,919, issued on July 21, was assigned to PICKLETIME SPORTS LLC (Milwaukie, Ore.).

"Pickleball scorekeeping device" was invented by Timothy S. Leatherman (Portland, Ore.), Markus J Bureker (Milwaukie, Ore.), Steven B. Berliner (Milwaukie, Ore.) and Denise K. Myers (Milwaukie, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method are provided that relate to a scorekeeping device, and more particularly, to a device for keeping track of scores, player positions, serving team, server, and server number for doubles pickleball. The method of scoring doubles pickleball includes: rotating a first scoring wheel within a housing to advance...