ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,333, issued on March 11.
"Crochet assistance apparatus" was invented by James Edward Vela (Maitland, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crochet assistance apparatus for supporting at least a portion of a flexible filament may include a first plurality of elongated projections and a second plurality of elongated projections, and may be movable between a first position and a second position. Each elongated projection of the first plurality of elongated projections may be proximate to the second plurality of elongated projections when the apparatus is in the first position, and one or more elongated projections of the first pluralit...