ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,537, issued on July 29, was assigned to KCTL Laboratory Co. Ltd (Anyang-si, South Korea).

"Low impact development plant box" was invented by Young Man Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea), Eui Ju Kim (Cheongju-si, South Korea) and Joon Ho Park (Gunpo-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low impact development plant box built on a road and/or residential area, comprising a plurality of segment boxes each having any one of curved, straight line, and slanted shapes in such a way as to provide a structure with a given shape when coupled to one another and an accommodation space formed therein to accommodate planting soil in which a p...