US Patent Issued to Gold Bond Building Products on July 29 for "Method of forming a gypsum panel including a starch layer" (Arizona, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,371, issued on July 29, was assigned to Gold Bond Building Products LLC (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Method of forming a gypsum panel including a starch layer" was invented by Gene Whittington (Fort Mill, S.C.), Robert Piercy (Mesa, Ariz.), Tom Griffith (Chandler, Ariz.) and Al Flanders (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the present disclosure, a method of forming a gypsum panel is disclosed. The method comprises: providing a first facing material, forming a starch slurry by combining starch and water at a shear rate of 3,000 rpm or more, providing the starch slurry onto the first facing material, depositing a gypsum slurry compri...