ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,360, issued on May 27.

"Gender reveal system" was invented by Royce Hutain (Huntingon Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gender reveal system has a light display device, a mounting device for mounting the light display device on the pregnant person, and a controller device that is operably connected to the light display device. The controller device is configured to receive an input that indicates that the gender of the unborn baby is either male or female, and transmit a gender revealing light sequence to the light display device. The light display device displays a substantially blue color in the event that the input of...