US Patent Issued to Fortress Iron on Sept. 23 for "Raking barrier panel" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,755, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Fortress Iron LP (Garland, Texas).

"Raking barrier panel" was invented by Kevin T. Burt (Dallas), Kevin B. Flatt (Garland, Texas), Geoff T. Luczycki (Garland, Texas), Yihong Zhang (Garland, Texas), Matthew Carlyle Sherstad (Dallas), Evan Timmons (Arlington, Texas) and Xiaoning Wang (Garland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A raking barrier panel includes a plurality of pickets and a channel member. The channel member includes a web wall and side walls extending from the web wall and a first rib extending from the first side wall, where the web wall defines a plurality of spaced apart ope...