ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,244, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KING COMPETITION PRODUCTS OY (Lahti, Finland).
"Holder device" was invented by Kim Leppanen (Lahti, Finland) and Emil Jarvinen (Lahti, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A holder device for holding objects includes a holder body, a moveable carrier element, and a force generating system tending to move the carrier element in a first direction to a first position when the carrier element is in a second position away from the first position. The carrier element constitutes a trough having a longitudinal direction perpendicular to the first direction, a wider area closer to a bottom of the tro...