ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,542, issued on May 20, was assigned to James Lawrence Dean Naylor (Byram, N.J.).
"Universal wheelbarrow snowboard attachment" was invented by James Laurence Dean Naylor (Sparta, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A devise that makes it possible to use common-or-garden wheelbarrow in snow or other slippery conditions. The device can be used on any standard wheelbarrow and deployed in a matter of a few seconds, without any disassembly or adjustment to the wheelbarrow. The device consists of aplastic board, similar to a children's training snowboard, approximately 104 cm (41 inches) long and 28 cm (11 inches) wide, to which a metal cra...