ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,473, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ENPAC LLC (Eastlake, Ohio).
"Spill pallet" was invented by Timothy Reed (Twinsburg, Ohio), Lawrence Stanek (Akron, Ohio), James Vanmeter (Fairlawn, Ohio) and Brian Walters (Cypress, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spill pallet including: a continuous, unitary, liftable sump-defining base having a bottom, side walls extending from and surrounding the bottom and terminating in an upper edge, a plurality of risers extending from the bottom, and a rim formed in the side walls below the upper edge; and at least one drum-supporting grate that is supportable on the plurality of risers and the r...