ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,710, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to May We Help (Cincinnati).
"Batting device" was invented by William Sand (Cincinnati) and Raphael J. Riley (Lebanon, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A batting device includes a housing, a rotating assembly, an actuating assembly, and a swinging assembly. The rotating assembly includes a rotational member positioned within the housing and a resilient member that exhibits rotational force upon the rotating assembly. The actuating assembly includes a firing device that a user acts upon to transition the rotating assembly from a first state of rest to a second state of rotational movement. The s...