US Patent Issued to Loa Movement on Sept. 23 for "Supportive weighted block for yoga" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,130, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Loa Movement LLC (Durham, N.C.).

"Supportive weighted block for yoga" was invented by Lauren H. Shelton (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a weighted block including a hexahedron shaped block body having a cavity, a top opening to the cavity, a bottom wall opposite to the top opening, a front wall opposite to a back wall, and a left wall opposite to a right wall. The bottom, front, back, right, and left walls interconnected and surrounding the cavity to form the hexahedron shaped block body. A rod inside the cavity connects the left and right walls. The cavity has a dept...