The University of Alabama’s win in the College Football Playoff wasn’t the school’s only big football-related win in January. The school was also assigned a patent for the collapsable sideline tent that was invented by trainers and mechanical engineering students at Alabama and is now ubiquitous in major football. The co-inventors are Jeff Allen, Thomas Patrick Powell, Jared Porteous, Jared Cassity, and Christian Parris, according to the U.S. Patent Office. As we’ve previously reported, Alabama partnered with spinoff Kinematic Sports LLC, which was housed in a Tuscaloosa incubator, to market the college, professional and other football teams. Sources: Birmingham Business Journal, Fox 6 (Birmingham), NBCsports.com, AL.com, Tuscaloosa News, Austin American-Statesman, SEC Country.com, WVUA (Tuscaloosa), Yahoo!, Saturday Down South, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (Georgia), Campus Sports, WHNT-CBS (Huntsville), WCNN-AM (Atlanta, Georgia)