ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,474, issued on June 17, was assigned to INERO AB (Mansarp, Sweden).

"Water barrier system comprising connection device" was invented by Ingvar Nero (Mansarp, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a water barrier module system comprising a first (10) and a second (20) protective module configured to form at least a part of a water barrier. Each protective module comprises a side flange (12, 22) extending substantially perpendicular to a main plane and having an outer surface (18, 28) and an inner surface (16, 26). Each of the side flanges comprises at least one elongated opening (14, 24) having a width...