US Patent Issued to CERTAINTEED on Dec. 9 for "Building surface panels with foam backing and method of manufacture" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,561, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to CERTAINTEED LLC (Malvern, Pa.).

"Building surface panels with foam backing and method of manufacture" was invented by Jay M. Tudor (Goodrich, Mich.), David J. Stucky (Grass Lake, Mich.), Ashley A. Schultz (Jackson, Mich.), Eishaan Gakhar (East Lansing, Mich.) and Dev B. Barpanda (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to cladding for covering a building surface. The present disclosure relates more particularly to a method of manufacturing a building surface panel. The method includes providing a foam piece having a 30 day/23deg C. residual shrink...