ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,232, issued on March 11.
"Method and apparatus for bag throwing game" was invented by Michael Rivard (Cedar, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application describes a bag throwing game board and game. Players take a plurality of soft bags that are approximately round in shape and throw them from a distance towards the game board, which in various examples is in the shape of a tower, and has holes. Points are attributed to bags landing in different holes of the board, depending on the difficulty of landing the bag in each hole. After a series of throws, the point scores are totaled and the player earning the most point...