ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,577, issued on June 24, was assigned to WOW GEAR LLC (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
"Gripping mitt" was invented by David Tognarelli (Goleta, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The flexible gripping mitt is a hand tool for handling and retaining rigid and semi-rigid food and non-food items in order to cut, trim, slice, carve, pare or chop the item or perform other treatments such as painting, sanding and sculpting to non food items. The gripping mitt present disclosure is intended to allow a person to firmly hold and grip a variety of small items while working on the item being held. The gripping mitt protects from the temperature and l...