US Patent Issued to UGLY HABITATS on Dec. 16 for "Aquatic habitat structure and associated method" (Tennessee, Florida, Indiana, South Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,775, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to UGLY HABITATS COMPANY INC. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Aquatic habitat structure and associated method" was invented by Brian Graeb (Willow Lake, S.D.), Matthew Rayl (Russiaville, Ind.), Douglas Todd Childress (Orlando, Fla.) and Troy Goldsby (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aquatic habitat structure for a body of water includes tree sections coupled together to form an artificial tree. Each tree section includes a trunk having a cylindrical shape with opposing ends and a curved surface extending therebetween, and a first plurality of leaflets covering the curved surface of the trun...