US Patent Issued to Advanced Drainage Systems on May 12 for "Drainage assembly having an end cap and ramp" (Connecticut, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,540, issued on May 12, was assigned to Advanced Drainage Systems Inc. (Hilliard, Ohio).

"Drainage assembly having an end cap and ramp" was invented by Bryan Coppes (Old Saybrook, Conn.), Irena Makarchuk (Fairfield, Conn.), Dan Swistak (Newmarket, N.H.) and George Ives (Tolland, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Stormwater management systems, apparatus, and methods for containing and filtering runoff may be provided. In one implementation, a stormwater chamber may be provided. The stormwater chamber may be configured for use with an endcap for connecting a pipe to the stormwater chamber, and the stormwater chamber may include a firs...