US Patent Issued to Advanced Drainage Systems on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods for stormwater management" (Maryland, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,130, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Advanced Drainage Systems Inc. (Hilliard, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for stormwater management" was invented by Daniel J. Figola (Powell, Ohio), Bo Liu (Clarksburg, Md.) and Erik K. Hartwell (Mount Airy, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid management system can include a first chamber, a diffusion plate positioned in the first chamber configured to receive fluid and to direct the fluid along a bypass fluid flow path or a primary fluid flow path, a riser pipe positioned within the first chamber that conveys fluid from the diffusion plate into a second chamber, and a filtering apparatus pos...