US Patent Issued to THE SIMPLAY3 on Sept. 9 for "No-dig mailbox" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,785, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to THE SIMPLAY3 COMPANY (Streetsboro, Ohio).

"No-dig mailbox" was invented by John Hradisky (Aurora, Ohio) and Keary Knerem (Garrettsville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mailbox assembly that may be provided on a surface and freely movable by an end user from one location to another without digging a hole for the post. The mailbox assembly includes a post, a mail receptacle on an upper poste end, and a base on a lower base end. The base includes one or more hollow cavities for retaining ballast material to thereby move a center of gravity of the mailbox assembly towards the bottom surface...