US Patent Issued to BMIC on May 20 for "Self-healing impact resistant roofing materials and methods of making thereof" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,401, issued on May 20, was assigned to BMIC LLC (Dallas).

"Self-healing impact resistant roofing materials and methods of making thereof" was invented by Matthew Michael (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention, in embodiments, relates to a roofing material comprising (a) a substrate having a top surface and a back surface, (b) a plurality of self-healing particles embedded into the substrate, and (c) a coating applied onto the substrate having the plurality of self-healing particles embedded therein, to provide a coated substrate. The plurality of self-healing particles can be embedded into the top surface and/or t...