US Patent Issued to Sarah Louise Wood Ham on June 16 for "Portable game board for card playing" (Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,092, issued on June 16, was assigned to Sarah Louise Wood Ham (Metairie, La.).

"Portable game board for card playing" was invented by Sarah Louise Wood Ham (Metairie, La.) and Elise Kiser (Metairie, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable game board for card playing includes a first rigid body and a second rigid body which are pivotally moveable between a folded position and an open card playing position. The portable game board includes a plurality of flat card retention sleeves adapted to receive playing cards of a user, and each flat card retention sleeve is disposed atop an inner playing surface along respective outer edges...