US Patent Issued to Proxamus on Feb. 3 for "Threaded boat drain plug with ergonomic grip and light enabled garboard" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,946, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Proxamus LLC (The Woodlands, Texas).

"Threaded boat drain plug with ergonomic grip and light enabled garboard" was invented by Eduardo Valverde (The Woodlands, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A garboard drain plug system comprising an ergonomic grip which may aid in tightening and loosening the drain plug by hand without special tools. The garboard drain plug system may comprise a light ring which may surround a garboard, and thereby illuminate an area adjacent to, or surrounding, the garboard. Together, the ergonomic drain plug, garboard, and lighted garboard ring may act alone or in cooper...