ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,815, issued on Aug. 12.
"Steal the bacon board game" was invented by Stevie Amos Burke (Wilmington, N.C.) and Alayne Mahoney (Wilmington, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a traditional board game, Steal the Bacon activity and the integration of both elements. The traditional game has two lines of players facing each other and when "their" assigned number is called, they run to steal the bacon and bring it home. To replicate the traditional game into a board game; we designed Ref cards which are used in leu of a live referee calling out numbers. To simulate 2 people running to "steal the bacon" and ...