ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,541, issued on June 17, was assigned to Dutch Toys Group Holding B.V. (Doetinchem, Netherlands).
"Foldable cover for a swimming pool having opposite straight sides" was invented by Stijn Gerard Driever (Doetinchem, Netherlands), Jeroen van den Bosch (Doetinchem, Netherlands) and Jeroen Hendrik Johan Koeslag (Doetinchem, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a foldable cover (1) for a swimming pool (100). The cover comprises a foldable cover material (2), a number of supports (3) extending over the cover material for folding and unfolding the cover material and two support units (10) to be arrange...