US Patent Issued to Lifetime Products on Jan. 20 for "Axis align lock release mechanism for basketball system" (Utah Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,001, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Lifetime Products Inc. (Clearfield, Utah).

"Axis align lock release mechanism for basketball system" was invented by Lynn D VanDyke (Clearfield, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example of a basketball system includes a post, a backboard, a connecting structure that connects the backboard to the post, and a height adjustment mechanism operable to adjust a position of the backboard relative to a reference surface, and the height adjustment mechanism includes one or more arms connected to the connecting structure, an adjustment handle connected to the one or more arms and to the support st...