US Patent Issued to Wallace Pottery on April 14 for "Pottery holding apparatus, systems, and methods for a clay workpiece" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,057, issued on April 14, was assigned to Wallace Pottery LLC (Lakeville, Minn.).

"Pottery holding apparatus, systems, and methods for a clay workpiece" was invented by Luka William Wallace (Lakeville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for securing a clay workpiece to a pottery wheel includes a base plate and a clay holding member. The base plate includes an alignment feature to at least partially receive a locating feature of the pottery wheel. The clay holding member includes a body extending from the base plate to an upper surface and an opening at the upper surface extending into the body. The clay holding member incl...