ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,761, issued on March 25, was assigned to BMIC LLC (Dallas).

"Roofing system having tapered insulation panels, a roof assembly kit and a method of installing thereof" was invented by James Willits (Fort Worth, Texas), Venkata Nagarajan (Hawthorn Woods, Ill.), Andrew Seymour (Dallas), Mark Lienemann (Stillwater, Minn.), David Scott (Dallas), Walter Brown (Dallas) and Leonel Alvarado (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention, in embodiments, relates to a roofing system that includes a roof deck, a plurality of tapered insulation panels applied onto the roof deck, at least one non-tapered insulation panel applied onto the pl...