ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,933, issued on March 18, was assigned to THE RITESCREEN COMPANY LLC (Elizabethville, Pa.).

"Reduced visibility window/door screen with a reduced frame profile and internal hardware" was invented by Thomas Randall Iles (State College, Pa.), John C. St. Clair (Ashville, Pa.), John Joseph Keller (Newtown, Pa.), John France (Mantua, Ohio), Christopher Seebode (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Varadarajan Swamydashu (Millersburg, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reduced visibility window screen has four frame portions joined together using four corner connectors. A plunger assembly received within each side of the bottom frame portion includ...