US Patent Issued to CEMCO on Oct. 28 for "Building joint with compressible firestopping component" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,824, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CEMCO LLC (City of Industry, Calif.).

"Building joint with compressible firestopping component" was invented by Donald Anthony Pilz (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head of wall assembly includes a compressible component positioned within a deflection gap between an upper edge of the wallboard and a ceiling or other horizontal structural element. The compressible component includes an intumescent strip in contact with the ceiling or the upper edge of the wallboard. The compressible component held in place by a double-sided tape attached with the header track, the ceiling, or ...