ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,144, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to LAPORTE HOLDING (Biot, France).
"Throwing arm" was invented by Jean-Michel Laporte (Biot, France) and Jean-Marc Fouques (Antibes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target throwing device, including a support, a throwing arm and a tray, wherein the throwing arm is rotatably hinged relative to the support according to an axis of rotation, so as to be able to eject a target arranged on the tray, and wherein the arm includes an elongate member and a damping element mounted on the elongate member and able to come into contact with the target, the elongate member includes at least one section a...