ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,123, issued on May 27, was assigned to DiversiTech Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Molded equipment pad with arc-shaped ribs" was invented by Charles Walter Cox Jr. (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Keith Platt (Snellville, Ga.) and Jonathan Sada (Lawrenceville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A molded equipment pad having a top deck, side walls, underlying reinforcing radial ribs, and underlying reinforcing arc-shaped ribs. The arc-shaped ribs may include a series of concentric arc-shaped ribs that are centered on the center of the equipment pad and that extend toward the side walls of the pad and a number of distributed circular hubs. Alternatively, ...