ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,029, issued on July 1, was assigned to Lintner Art Gear Ltd. (Great Britain).
"Paint palette and mounting system for same" was invented by Philip Neil Candy (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A paint palette mounting system comprising a docking portion (31) and a paint box (10), configurable to a paint palette. The system includes a first half (32) of a coupling feature at the docking portion for coupling with a second half (14) of the coupling feature located on the paint box/palette. The coupling feature is preferably comprised of complimentary stadium-shaped parts, with chamfered edges (37), that are separable...