Gutter guard with irregular grooves

1. A gutter guard device comprising:

a bridge member composed of a decking material having a plurality of orifices, and having a roof side and an opposing gutter lip side;

at least one irregular groove disposed in the decking material altering a profile of the deck material, wherein the at least one irregular groove has a length and a varying 3-dimensional geometry that spans the bridge member from near the roof side to near the gutter lip side, wherein a cross-sectional width of the at least one irregular groove varies along its length;

a roof attachment member disposed adjacent to the roof side of the bridge member; and

a gutter attachment member disposed adjacent to the the gutter lip side of the bridge member;

wherein the at least one irregular groove enables the gutter guard device to be self-supporting.

2. The gutter guard device of claim 1 , wherein adjacent grooves of the at least one irregular groove form a series of mid-point shifted grooves, wherein first ends of the adjacent grooves have an upper half-hexagonal profile disposed above a plane of the bridge portion and opposite ends of the adjacent grooves have a lower half-hexagonal profile disposed below the plane of the bridge portion.

3. The gutter guard device of claim 1 , wherein a first groove of the at least one irregular groove has a different height than a second groove of the at least one irregular groove.

4. The gutter guard device of claim 3 , further comprising at least one barricade disposed in the bridge member.

5. The gutter guard device of claim 4 , wherein the at least one barricade has a shape from the group consisting of a number, letter, circle, arrow, crescent, bump, dimple, and polygon.

6. The gutter guard device of claim 4 , wherein the at least one barricade is a plurality of barricades.

7. The gutter guard device of claim 3 , wherein the at least one barricade is not made from the decking material.

8. The gutter guard device of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the roof attachment member and gutter attachment member have a receiving center configured for securing the bridge member to the respective attachment member.

9. A gutter guard device comprising:

a bridge member composed of a decking material having a plurality of orifices, and having a roof side and an opposing gutter lip side;

at least one irregular groove disposed in the decking material altering a profile of the deck material to outline a variable 3-dimensional geometry that spans the bridge member from a proximal end of the bridge member's roof side to a proximal end of the bridge member's gutter lip side, the at least one irregular groove having a height and width, wherein along a length of the irregular groove the height varies from a bottom of the at least one irregular groove;

a roof attachment member configured to attach to the roof side of the bridge member; and

a gutter attachment member configured to attach to the gutter lip side of the bridge member;

wherein the gutter guard device is self-supporting.

10. The gutter guard device of claim 9 , wherein:

the decking material has a center plane; and

the three-dimensional profile of at least one irregular groove extends below the center plane along a first portion of the length of the at least one irregular groove and extends below the center plane along a second portion of the length of the at least one irregular groove.

11. A gutter guard device comprising:

a bridge member composed of a decking material having a plurality of orifices, and having a roof side and an opposing gutter lip side;

at least one irregular groove having a height and width spanning the decking material, wherein along a length of the at least one irregular groove the width varies;

a roof attachment member attached to the roof side; and

a gutter attachment member attached to the gutter lip side.