US Patent Issued to Regalo International on March 18 for "Keeper apparatus to maintain gate in plane with frame" (Minnesota, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,931, issued on March 18, was assigned to Regalo International LLC (Longboat Key, Fla.).

"Keeper apparatus to maintain gate in plane with frame" was invented by Mark A. Flannery (Longboat Key, Fla.), Gary T. Schultze (Savage, Minn.), Nicholas E. Beattie (Saint Paul, Minn.), Michael P. Lane (Chaska, Minn.) and Matthew A. Willms (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A keeper apparatus engaged to the lower free end swinging corner portion of a gate, not to either of the upper and lower corner portions having the axis on which the gate swings, and not to the upper free end swinging corner portion where the gate has a main latch...