ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,531, issued on June 17.
"Disposal chute" was invented by Chad Helmer (Battle Ground, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disposal chute assembly for directing debris downwardly to a destination area such as a dumpster includes a plurality of chute sections. Each chute section has a tubular shape, and the chute sections are removably interconnected to define a channel extending from a topmost chute section to a bottommost chute section. Each chute section has a top end and a bottom end. Each chute section of the plurality of chute sections comprises a tube including a plurality of panels that are removably interconnected. Each pane...