ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,775, issued on July 8, was assigned to Revolution Designs LLC (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

"Bag expanders and method" was invented by Solomon Hedaya (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Maurice Hedaya (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bag expander, comprising a first wall portion, a second wall portion, a bridge coupling the first and second wall portions together, wherein the first and second wall portions are rotatable about the bridge to lie along a substantially same plane, and an expansion mechanism secured to the bridge, wherein the expansion mechanism is configured to bias the first wall and second wall portions from a collapsed configurat...