ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,096, issued on April 15, was assigned to MANVERS ENGINEERING Ltd. (Barnsley, Great Britain).
"Protector for a drain" was invented by Christopher Ibbotson (Barnsley, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drain protector (1) is provided which has a conformable bottom frame (3) having a central opening that is closed by a filter element (4) spanning the opening. The filter element is capable of removing silt from water on a building site. The bottom frame is capable of conforming to the surface terrain around a drain opening due to the compressive weight of the drain protector in-situ. There is a porous top frame (2) that provid...