ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,826, issued on April 14, was assigned to The Rage Pad LLC (Denver, N.C.).

"Rage relieving device" was invented by Cort Birmingham (Denver, N.C.), Hamilton Van Sciver (Charleston, S.C.) and Destin Wesley Huggins (Denver, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a pad having an outermost upper surface for receiving a hand strike and an outermost bottom surface defining a recess extending upward into the pad and defining a central interior space of the pad; a base removably attached to the pad in covering relation to the recess defined in the bottom surface so as to close off the central interior space; and an electronics ...