ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,120, issued on May 26, was assigned to SPLASH POOL & SPA INC. (Ningbo, China).

"Pool hose air evacuation module" was invented by Huaiping Wang (Ningbo City, China), Paul Lambourn (Johannesburg) and Michael Richard Tregoning (Evendale, South Africa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pool hose air evacuation module includes a cover having an upstream connector, and a downstream connector. The cover includes a primary inlet port proximate the upstream connector and a secondary discharge port proximate the downstream connector. The module includes a main conduit, a primary conduit in fluid communication with the primary inlet port and the d...