ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,306, issued on July 14, was assigned to Tinghoff Invest Ltd (London).

"Gutter system and a method of assembling a gutter system" was invented by Berit Jane Schiott Johannsen (Frederiksberg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gutter system comprising a number of gutter sections with a convex outer surface and gutter fittings with a concave inner surface adapted for receiving and fixing the open end of two gutter sections so that the convex outer surface of each gutter section rest against the concave inner surface of the gutter fitting, and where the gutter fitting comprises one or more indentations arranged in the concave inner...