US Patent Issued on July 22 for "Weeping wall" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,002, issued on July 22.

"Weeping wall" was invented by Lucien Godbout (St-Augustin de Desmaures, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weeping wall has a wall body, a flowable substance inlet, at least one mobile deflector, and a flowable substance outlet. The wall body has a flow surface with a magnetic material layer extending along at least a portion thereof. The flowable substance inlet is at an upper end of the flow surface, with a flowable substance continuously flowing therefrom and downwardly onto the flow surface. The mobile deflector is movably engaged to the flow surface and projects therefrom. The mobile deflector inclu...