US Patent Issued to Thursday Pools on March 17 for "Tanning ledge structure for a fiberglass swimming pool" (Virginia, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,799, issued on March 17, was assigned to Thursday Pools (Fortville, Ind.).

"Tanning ledge structure for a fiberglass swimming pool" was invented by Jason Hughes (Heathsville, Va.), Edward Vondell (Fortville, Ind.) and William Khamis (Fortville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A swimming pool assembly, including a swimming pool body defining a pool top edge and an oppositely disposed bottom pool floor member connected by at least one pool wall and having a shallow tanning deck portion and a support structure for providing support to the deck portion operationally connected to the deck portion and extending away from the pool top ...