ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,216, issued on Aug. 26.
"Basketball training apparatus" was invented by Michael Chan (Winnipeg, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A basketball training apparatus has a basketball hoop with a circular rim and a backboard adjacent to the hoop adjacent to a playing surface. A backboard frame assembly supports the backboard relative to the playing surface to be movable between a plurality of different working positions, in which each different working position corresponds to a different angular orientation of the backboard about the upright hoop axis. By effectively rotating the basketball net about the hoop axis, all the shooting po...