ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,945, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ZURN WATER LLC (Milwaukee).
"Domed or raised drain inlet strainers" was invented by Christopher Alan Majocka (Erie, Pa.), Matthew Curtis Henderson (Girard, Pa.) and Christopher Joseph Say (Waterford, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roof drain including a base defining a channel and an axis, a gravel guard coupled to the base and including a plurality of teeth, where the gravel guard defines a plurality of gullets between the teeth, and a dome coupled to the base, where the dome includes a plurality of ribs, where the ribs define a plurality of gaps therebetween, and where each gap is radia...