ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,969, issued on June 10.
"Team roping apparatus" was invented by Dustin Whitaker (Childress, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A team roping assembly for guiding a bovine along a path between a first end and a second end of a track. Wherein: the team roping assembly comprises the track, a trolley, a horn wrap and a tether. The trolley is coupled to the track. The tether selectively connecting the horn wrap to the trolley. The horn wrap is configured to selectively attach to a head of the bovine. Said trolley 109 is slidably coupled to the track. The tether comprises the first end and the second end. Wherein, the first end of the te...