ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,333, issued on June 17, was assigned to Knauf Gips KG (Iphofen, Germany).

"Method for producing a cementitious board, apparatus for producing a cementitious board, and cementitious board" was invented by Stergios Karakoussis (Laubach, Germany), Alexander Hartmann (Kleinlangheim, Germany), Georgi Paraskov (Neustadt an der Aisch, Germany), Carlo Knauf (Weigenheim, Germany) and Anton Peter (Wuerzburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for producing a cementitious board includes a conveying device for conveying a first liner with first overlap sections-in a transport direction, at least one slurry feeder device for appl...