ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,864, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Davey Tree Expert Co. (Mantua, Ohio).
"Shoreline stabilization device" was invented by Frederick Worth Creech (Raleigh, N.C.) and Mary-Margaret Sykes McKinney (Edenton, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for shoreline stabilization using a plurality of shoreline stabilization devices, having a base portion, which may be a solid structure or be formed from at least first two of the shoreline stabilization devices arranged in an end to end configuration on opposite sides of an imaginary line running perpendicular to the two shoreline stabilization devices; the base porti...