ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,419, issued on July 1, was assigned to Quality Craft Industries Inc. (Romeoville, Ill.).
"Assemblable fire pit" was invented by Dennis Hale (Willowbrook, Ill.), Marcus W. Bosch (Belding, Mich.) and Shelley Nehrt (Barrington, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fire pit that is constructed to be sold in a disassembled state is shown and described. In the disassembled state, the various components (as discussed herein) are in a relatively flat configuration and are configured to be assembled by the end user. In the disassembled state, the components contain relatively less void space between the components, in comparison to in the ass...