ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,406, issued on July 1, was assigned to BLAKE MARTIN (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Interactive LED system for enhancing billiard gameplay" was invented by Blake Robert Martin (Oakdale, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for use with a billiards table may include addressable multicolor LED strips, a controller and a user device. The controller may be configured to send signals through the LED strips to control which one or more pixels are activated and one or more colors of light to be produced by corresponding one or more LEDs for the one or more activated pixels. The user device may communicate with the controller and may implement a p...