ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,357, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Endura Products LLC (Colfax, N.C.).
"Door stile with composite edge banding and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Tomasz Jaskiewicz (Oak Ridge, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a door stile includes bonding a composite edge band to a first side of a core and profiling the composite edge band. The edge band includes a hollow that is defined through the composite edge band to flex when compressed into the first side of the core. Profiling the composite edge band includes removing portions of the composite edge band that define the hollows."
The patent...