US Patent Issued to Advanced Drainage Systems on May 20 for "Stormwater management crate assembly with tapered columns and arched side panels" (Connecticut, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,380, issued on May 20, was assigned to Advanced Drainage Systems Inc. (Hilliard, Ohio).

"Stormwater management crate assembly with tapered columns and arched side panels" was invented by Adam Miller (Haddam, Conn.), Dan Swistak (Newmarket, N.H.), Bryan Coppes (Old Saybrook, Conn.), Ronald Vitarelli (Marlborough, Conn.) and Paul Holbrook (Old Saybrook, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Stormwater management systems, methods, and apparatuses for containing and filtering runoff are provided. Disclosed embodiments may include a top plate and a bottom plate, the top plate including a first plurality of side panel attachments. Embodimen...