ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,242, issued on May 27, was assigned to BHR Innovations LLC (Smyrna, Ga.).
"Yard game" was invented by Brian Berkowitz (Smyrna, Ga.), David Hale (Marietta, Ga.) and Jeff Reilly (Smyrna, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for playing a game includes positioning a shield of the game between a first target box of a first team and a second target box of a second team, the game further including at least one target of the first team and at least one projectile; positioning the at least one target of the first team in the first target box by a first player of the first team in a target setup step; positioning a second player of the...