US Patent Issued to BMIC on July 15 for "Fastener plate for securing an underlayment to a roof surface" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,432, issued on July 15, was assigned to BMIC LLC (Dallas).

"Fastener plate for securing an underlayment to a roof surface" was invented by Adem Chich (Kearney, N.J.), Yan Zheng (Livingston, N.J.) and Gerry Messina (Wyckoff, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fastener plate for use in coupling an underlayment to a roof surface is disclosed. In use, the fastener plate is arranged and configured to enable subsequently applied liquid coatings to flow through a top surface of the fastener plate and into one or more cavities so that the liquid coating seals any openings created by introduction of the fastener. In one embodiment, the fas...