US Patent Issued to FLOWSTOP on July 1 for "Anti-flood device" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,091, issued on July 1, was assigned to FLOWSTOP SAS (Montauban, France).

"Anti-flood device" was invented by Olivier Guillou (Montauban, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anti-flood device intended to seal an opening, in particular of a building, including at least one parallelepiped panel forming a chamber which can be inflated by injecting a gas, comprising two rectangular main walls joined by a lower edge, an upper edge and two lateral edges. The inner faces of the main walls of the panel are connected to each other by connecting elements formed of threads of equal length, the ends of which are respectively secured to the ma...