US Patent Issued to Advanced Drainage Systems on June 2 for "Flared end ramp with side tabs" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,271, issued on June 2, was assigned to Advanced Drainage Systems Inc. (Hilliard, Ohio).

"Flared end ramp with side tabs" was invented by Irena Makarchuk (Fairfield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flared end ramp for managing and distributing fluid runoff. The flared end ramp may have an inlet end configured to connect to a pipe, a plurality of protrusions on the upper side of the inlet end, and an outlet end. An inclined surface may extend between the inlet end and the outlet end of the flared end ramp, the outlet end of the flared end ramp has a larger width than the inlet end of the flared end ramp such that the inclined sur...