US Patent Issued to Advanced Drainage Systems on June 30 for "Fasteners for a manifold" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,209, issued on June 30, was assigned to Advanced Drainage Systems Inc. (Hilliard, Ohio).

"Fasteners for a manifold" was invented by Irena Makarchuk (Fairfield, Conn.) and Paul Holbrook (Old Saybrook, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fasteners for fastening at least two parts, comprising one or more pins and one or more tabs on a first part, one or more holes and one or more connectors on a second part, and wherein the one or more pins of the first part are inserted into the one or more holes of the second part and the one or more tabs of the first part are snapped onto the one or more connectors of the second part to form a manif...