ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,123, issued on May 13.

"Pillar designs" was invented by Raegan Arjes-Maddox (Cuba, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pillar designs including a decorative assembly and a cutting assembly. The decorative assembly includes a decoration member, wherein the decoration member is a sheet of paper with a customizable decoration theme that is adjusted in length to cover the circumference of a pillar. The cutting assembly includes grid lines and diameter marks, wherein the grid lines are vertical cutting lines that indicate where to cut as the user may consider appropriate. The diameter lines includes indicia of gradation marks that measur...