US Patent Issued to Hunter Douglas on June 3 for "Coupling system for mounting tiles to a building" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,129, issued on June 3, was assigned to Hunter Douglas Inc..

"Coupling system for mounting tiles to a building" was invented by Christian Lehmann (Marblehead, Mass.) and Xiang Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupling system for mounting a tile to an outer surface of a building is disclosed. In one embodiment, the coupling system includes support tracks arranged and configured to couple the tile to the building. The support tracks may include integrally formed clips for coupling with the tiles. The clips may be arranged and configured to couple to a top portion of a lower tile and a bottom portion of an upper tile. Additio...