ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,658, issued on July 29.
"Shark guard" was invented by Zackery Gordon (Roanoke, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method of deterring sharks by aligning the poles of each magnet of a plurality of magnets oriented with their magnetic North and South poles on an axis parallel to the top/bottom of an article of manufacture such as a swimsuit, life jacket, surfboard, lifeboat, inner tube and/or scuba suit. In this device and method each magnet is permanently fixed within an individual pouch contained in a fabric or covering to maintain the alignment of the magnetic poles. Each pouch may retain a single magnet or a pluralit...