ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,442, issued on March 4.

"Educational game ball" was invented by Janet Bailey (Gretna, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides for a game ball for educational learning related play having a spherical body where the body has a plurality of flat exterior surfaces. The plurality of flat exterior surfaces include a plurality of groupings of three adjacent exterior flat surfaces. Each flat exterior surface of each of the groupings respectively have a flat flexible transparent pouch. Each flat flexible transparent pouch has a first slot opening opposite a second slot opening, and each flat flexible transparent pou...