ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,812, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to RAWLINGS SPORTING GOODS COMPANY INC. (St. Louis).
"Ball glove with backfinger lace" was invented by Joshua Arden Beier (St. Louis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Representative embodiments of the present technology include a ball glove having a plurality of finger stalls and a thumb stall, in which connecting lacing for at least some of the finger stalls is only between the finger stalls or on a back side of the finger stalls, such that the ball glove has limited (or no) lacing projecting into the catching area (the front/palm side of the glove) that can snag a player's hand or other object duri...