US Patent Issued to AWI Licensing on Feb. 11 for "Acoustical building panel, monolithic surface covering system incorporating an acoustical building panel, and methods of forming and installing the same" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,784, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to AWI Licensing LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Acoustical building panel, monolithic surface covering system incorporating an acoustical building panel, and methods of forming and installing the same" was invented by Eric D Kragness (Sinking Spring, Pa.), Alexandra G Waltemyer (York, Pa.), Jason T Cavanaugh (Lancaster, Pa.), John E Hughes (Lincoln University, Pa.), Lori Jo L Shearer (Millersville, Pa.), Bartolo J Torre (Landisville, Pa.) and Allan L. Dinkel (Columbia, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustical building panel is disclosed that comprises a fibrous panel comprising: a central portio...