ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,315, issued on June 30, was assigned to Zephyros Inc. (Romeo, Mich.).

"Pultruded and continuous flooring" was invented by Joseph Thomas (Romeo, Mich.) and Manish Taxak (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flooring system comprising: one or more structural members, each of the one or more structural members having opposing outer portions interconnected by ribs, the opposing outer portions and the ribs forming a plurality of channels within the one or more structural members along a length of each structural member."

The patent was filed on Oct. 19, 2020, under Application No. 17/639,719.

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