US Patent Issued to Anthony Hardwood Composites on Dec. 2 for "Reinforced laminated support mat with resilient corner member" (Arkansas, Maine, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,652, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Anthony Hardwood Composites Inc. (Sheridan, Ark.).

"Reinforced laminated support mat with resilient corner member" was invented by Jon C. Fiutak (Cape Elizabeth, Maine), Toby Q. Edwards (Bryant, Ark.) and James F. Weber Jr. (Eugene, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reinforced support mat includes a plurality of vertically oriented individual wood members adhesively bonded to each other, and having wide faces oriented parallel to a direction of an applied load. A plurality of corrugated protective edge members is positioned against, and attached to, each opposing wide face of the reinforced s...