US Patent Issued to Advanced Drainage Systems on Jan. 27 for "Multi-fit inline surface drain" (Connecticut, Ohio, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,898, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Advanced Drainage Systems Inc. (Hilliard, Ohio).

"Multi-fit inline surface drain" was invented by Joshua James Cislo (Findlay, Ohio), Ronald R. Vitarelli (Marlborough, Conn.) and Jeremy Daniel Cadeau (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-line surface drain may comprise a cylindrical frame and a plurality of concentric rings coupled to the cylindrical frame. The plurality of concentric rings may be configured to protrude outward from a bottom external surface of the cylindrical frame, and the diameters of the plurality of concentric rings may be different. At least one of the plural...