ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,704, issued on May 20, was assigned to DeRoyal Industries Inc. (Powell, Tenn.).
"Stackable eye shields" was invented by Walter C. Cowart (Blaine, Tenn.), Ethan Edward Valentine (Knoxville, Tenn.), Nicholas John Poker (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Phillip David Peery (Sweetwater, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container having a stack of eye shields, includes a stack of eye shields having a plurality of eye shields stacked one on top of another. The stack of eye shields is in a sloped configuration in which ear pieces of frames of the eye shields are generally aligned with one another and disposed at an angle relative to horizontal o...