ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,574, issued on May 20, was assigned to Latham Pool Products Inc. (Latham, N.Y.).

"Visualizer for swimming pools" was invented by Will Cappiello (Latham, N.Y.), Joel Culp (Latham, N.Y.), Scott Mocha (Latham, N.Y.) and Scott Reynolds (Latham, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Swimming pools can be visualized according to some aspects described herein. In one example, a system can receive a user selection of a particular liner from among a plurality of liner options for a virtual swimming pool. The system can generate a virtual swimming pool having the particular liner. The virtual swimming pool can be a three-dimensional (3D) renderi...