ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,660, issued on July 1.
"Underdrain for wastewater filtration container" was invented by Nicolas Sabia (Mississauga, Canada) and Vito Sabia (Mississauga, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An underdrain configured to be placed at the bottom of a wastewater container having media disposed therein wherein the present invention provides equally distributed flow over the entire filter bed. The present invention includes a base member having a planar bottom member with opposing lateral longitudinal leg members. A baffle member is operably coupled to the base member and superposed thereto. The baffle member is formed from four contiguous ...