ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,032, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Advanced Drainage Systems Inc. (Hilliard, Ohio).

"Stormwater system for managing and controlling sediment capture" was invented by Samuel Lee (Spring, Texas), Gregory Spires (Powell, Ohio), Christopher Stoneburg (Westerville, Ohio) and Joseph K Ludemann (Meriden, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments relate to a stormwater management system. In some embodiments, the stormwater management system may comprise a plurality of stormwater crates connected in one or more rows and a sediment capture row located within the plurality of stormwater crates. In some embodiments, the sed...