US Patent Issued to Landscape Structures on March 4 for "Accessible swing" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,918, issued on March 4, was assigned to Landscape Structures Inc. (Delano, Minn.).

"Accessible swing" was invented by Bryant A. Jones (Medicine Lake, Minn.), Darryl T. Wrolson (Minnetrista, Minn.), Matthew A. Tschann (Watertown, Minn.), Thomas L. Keller (Delano, Minn.) and Kent D. Wuchterl (Forest Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A swinging playground device includes a swing platform. The swinging playground device also includes a skirt coupled to the swinging platform and fills an area below the swinging platform as the swinging platform moves in a swinging motion."

The patent was filed on Feb. 16, 2024, under Application...