ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,262, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GUTTERGLOVE INC. (Franklin, Tenn.).
"Gutter guard with irregular grooves" was invented by Robert C. Lenney (Meadow Vista, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-supporting gutter guard device is described having a bridge member composed of a decking material having a plurality of orifices, and having a roof side and an opposing gutter lip side, at least one groove disposed in the decking material altering a profile of the deck material to outline a 3-dimensional geometry that spans the bridge member from a proximal end of the bridge member's roof side to a proximal end of the bridge membe...