US Patent Issued to GRADY F. SMITH & Co. on April 8 for "Boat stand with stackable boat stand base" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,566, issued on April 8, was assigned to GRADY F. SMITH & Co. INC. (Greenville, N.C.).

"Boat stand with stackable boat stand base" was invented by Grady F. Smith (Greenville, N.C.) and James Alan Gell (Bethel, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A boat stand includes a base that stacks compactly when not in use. The base comprises a vertical support column, a first pair of support legs extending from the support column in a first direction relative to a transverse plane of the boat stand, and a second pair of support legs extending from the support column in a second direction relative to the transverse plane. The first pair of suppor...