ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,058, issued on April 8, was assigned to Jianping Cheng (Jinhua, China).

"Board edge casting process and application thereof" was invented by Jianping Cheng (Jinhua, China) and Shuhong Lin (Jinhua, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An edge-casting process for sheet materials according to the present invention includes the following steps: S1. grooving, that is to choose a suitable sheet material, and leave a processing margin on the peripheral edge of the sheet, material, so as to make a first groove; S2. casting or covering, that is to cast a high solid content coating material into said first groove and solidify it; S3. making a ...