ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,753, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to BLEACHER BOUND LLC (Marietta, Ga.).

"Seat mount for tents" was invented by Jennifer Stucky (Marietta, Ga.), Croswell Brim (Marietta, Ga.) and Lyle Stucky (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mounting base retains a leg of a tent in place on a seat pan/plank and a coupling secures the mounting base to the seat pan/plank to securely mount the tent to the seat. The mounting base includes a mounting plate with an open-ended slot that is sufficiently large to laterally slidingly receive the tent leg and sufficiently small to retain a foot of the tent leg from longitudinally passing thro...