ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,904, issued on May 6, was assigned to Barrette Outdoor Living Inc. (Middleburg Heights, Ohio).
"Magnetic safety gate latch" was invented by Christopher Michael Schneider (Linwood, N.J.), Craig Kime (Middleburg Heights, Ohio), Antonello Nizzia (Middleburg Heights, Ohio) and Christopher John Heritage (Swedesboro, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic safety gate latch assembly and method of operation. The assembly includes: a pool latch tube, a user-actuated coupled to the top end of the pool latch tube; a rotatable shaft within the pool latch tube, an upper end of the shaft rigidly coupled to the lid, and a lower end of the s...