ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,172, issued on Sept. 16.
"Water distribution device for maintenance of an artificial basin" was invented by Eric Triquet (Rumilly, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water distribution device for simplified and partially automated maintenance of an artificial basin having a water inlet connected to a pump circulating water from the basin through a parallel configuration of pipes, connectors, servo-valves, a filter, a pump and a control unit. The control unit actuates the servo-valves to selectively pumping the water from the basin in a first flow direction through the filter in a filtering mode, from basin in a second flow dire...