ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,011, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Johns Manville (Denver).

"Multi-functional polyol based fiber glass binder composition" was invented by Lance Wang (Parker, Colo.), Kiarash Alavi (Littleton, Colo.), Guodong Zheng (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) and Jawed Asrar (Englewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fibrous insulation product, such as a fibrous insulation blanket or board product, includes a plurality of fibers that are entangled together and a crosslinked aromatic polymeric binder that bonds the plurality of fibers together. The fibrous insulation product includes between 80 and 99 weight percent of the fibers and between...