ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,405, issued on June 17, was assigned to Global Bamboo Technologies Inc. (Ocala, Fla.).
"Bamboo-hybrid structural panels and structural section" was invented by Nicholas Taylor Allan (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and William H. Hinkle (Geyserville, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Structural panels include a plurality of structural layers adhered together in a laminate, including a plurality of bamboo structural layers and at least one non-bamboo structural layer disposed between a first bamboo structural layer and a second bamboo structural layer of the plurality of bamboo structural layers. The first bamboo structural layer and the seco...