US Patent Issued to Alabama Metal Industries on June 3 for "Top of wall ventilation screed device and assembly" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,115, issued on June 3, was assigned to Alabama Metal Industries Corp. (Birmingham, Ala.).

"Top of wall ventilation screed device and assembly" was invented by Gary George Baltz Jr. (Mountain Brook, Ala.) and Frederic C. Mayer Jr. (Hoover, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ventilation screed configured to be mounted at a vertical wall of a structure includes an attachment flange having an upper end region and a lower end region opposite the upper end region. A cavity structure is disposed along the upper end region of the attachment flange. The cavity structure has a first side, a second side, and a third side. The first side exten...