ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,670, issued on June 3.

"Surface protection design systems" was invented by Lee Brown (Jensen Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-based method for designing surface protection systems for spaces is provided. The method includes the steps of searching for past saved appointments, loading selected past saved appointments, modifying the selected past saved appointments, creating a new project based on the modified selected past saved appointments, adding new rooms and features, drawing out space design aspects for the new rooms and features, selecting surface types for the space design aspects, including site specific su...