ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,275, issued on Aug. 12.
"Portable carport" was invented by Sriramkumar Lakshminarayanan (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable carport where vertical support members can be set up by one or more people and a horizontally disposed roof assembly attached to vertical support members, the roof assembly allowing an accordion style roof member to automatically extend or retract from the vertical support members when a person presses a button on a handheld transmitter that sends a radio signal to a receiver that is connected to a battery and motorized extension arm assemblies which can extend the roof and connected sid...