US Patent Issued to PLAYCORE WISCONSIN on June 17 for "Swing designed to promote attunement between child and caretaker" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,076, issued on June 17, was assigned to PLAYCORE WISCONSIN INC. (Chattanooga, Tenn.).

"Swing designed to promote attunement between child and caretaker" was invented by Thomas Robert Norquist (Fort Payne, Ala.), Kim Corvin Blackwood (Boaz, Ala.) and Charles Lebron Griffith IV (Fort Payne, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a swing that is operable to promote attunement between a child and caretaker. The swing comprises two seats, one of the two seats being configured to be occupied by a caretaker, such as a parent, and another of the two seats being configured to be occupied by a child. The two seats a...