ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,329, issued on May 5, was assigned to Viaflex Inc. (Sioux Falls, S.D.).

"Cover systems and methods with perforated tunnels" was invented by Jared Ernest Kocer (Sioux Falls, S.D.) and Andre Alan Harvey (Spring Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are cover systems for covering product such as grain. An example cover system includes a cover having at least one perforated tunnel extending across at least a portion of the cover (e.g., with an end to or beyond an edge of the cover). The perforated tunnel can include a bottom membrane with perforations, a cap strip membrane attached to the top side of the bottom membrane, ...