ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,826, issued on Sept. 30.
"Kitchen sink corralling and transfer apparatus" was invented by James Michael Hunt (Winchester, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an apparatus for facilitating the corralling of food debris solids and liquids within the in sink space, and prevents dish ware from crowding the sink drain for enabling such debris to be deposited immediately to the garbage disposal. This is due to the fact that the apparatus creates a physical barrier by having a vertical structure height, which overcomes the height of multiple levels of dish ware to be held back from the sink drain hole prev...