ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,247, issued on June 24.
"Balancing lever game" was invented by Geoffrey Giles Christou (Dunchurch, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A balancing lever game with game pieces including beams, movable loads, and fulcrums that players may use to create balanced compound lever systems. The balancing lever game can be played singly, or with multiple players. The game pieces may be used to arrange and re-arrange the beams and a plurality of movable load game pieces of different mass and sizes to create a balanced system where no beam game pieces are touching the ground or leaning on each other. Starting with a main fulcrum game piece, a...