ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,414, issued on April 1, was assigned to WHITEWATER WEST INDUSTRIES LTD. (Richmond, Canada).
"Conjoined multiple bowl water slide feature" was invented by Claudio Barrera (White Rock, Canada), Boxiao Hu (Coquitlam, Canada), Ben Cornwell-Mott (Comox, Canada), Ross Flavell (Coquitlam, Canada) and Bruce Bradley (Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ride feature is disclosed using conjoined bowl structures formed of multiple bowl structures attached to each other. In a two bowl embodiment, the ride vehicle rides about at least a portion of a periphery of a first bowl structure and then about at least a portion of a periphery...