US Patent Issued on Jan. 13 for "Anchoring system for umbrella" (Hawaii Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,059, issued on Jan. 13.

"Anchoring system for umbrella" was invented by Bert Kealoha Motooka (Kihei, Hawaii).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An umbrella includes a canopy, a pole, and a plurality of pouches suitable for holding grounding material. In one version of the invention, a cord for each pouch links the pouch to the canopy, and there are hook and loop fastener pairs for removable attaching each pouch to the canopy. Each pouch can have a loop for receiving a stake for staking the umbrella to a surface. The stakes can be stored in the pole, and a cap for the pole can have an integral hammer for hammering stakes into a surface." ...