ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,552, issued on June 3.
"Solar-heated decking boards" was invented by Michael Wieland (Greer, S.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The solar-heated decking boards includes a plurality of deck planks and a fluid transport structure. The plurality of deck planks forms a component of the fluid transport structure. The plurality of deck panels forms the horizontally oriented surface formed by a deck. Each individual deck plank selected from the plurality of deck planks forms a load bearing structure. Each selected individual deck plank further attaches to one or more additional individual deck planks selected from the plurality of deck plan...