US Patent Issued on July 22 for "Cover for circular-profile downspouts having protection from animal/insect intrusion and damage/debris accumulation" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,070, issued on July 22.

"Cover for circular-profile downspouts having protection from animal/insect intrusion and damage/debris accumulation" was invented by Stephen Cochran (Winder, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downspout end cover protects and closes a lower end of a cylindrical rain gutter downspout assembly. The cover includes a body that forms a continuous hollow channel for passage of collected rainwater. An aperture at the back of the body is sized to attach to the downspout, and a front cylindrical or oval aperture emits collected rainwater. A door is rotatably attached to the front of the body at a top of the front of...