ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,674, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Pratt Corrugated Holdings Inc. (Brookhaven, Ga.).
"Lawn refuse bag insert" was invented by Shifeng Chen (Newport News, Va.), Greg Sollie (Sharpsburg, Ga.) and Jamie Waltermire (Peachtree City, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lawn refuse bag insert includes a rear wall disposed at a rear end of the lawn refuse bag insert; a first side wall hingedly coupled to the rear wall at a first side of the lawn refuse bag insert; and a second side wall hingedly coupled to the rear wall at a second side of the lawn refuse bag insert opposite the first side wherein a top edge of the lawn refuse bag in...