US Patent Issued to LuxWall on Sept. 9 for "Vacuum insulated panel with seal for pump-out tube and/or method of making same" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,634, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to LuxWall Inc. (Ypsilanti, Mich.).

"Vacuum insulated panel with seal for pump-out tube and/or method of making same" was invented by Scott V. Thomsen (Glen Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum insulating panel may include: a first substrate; a second substrate; a plurality of spacers provided in a gap between at least the first and second substrates, wherein the gap is at pressure less than atmospheric pressure; a pump-out/evacuation tube extending at least partly into an aperture in one of the substrates; and a pump-out/evacuation tube seal. The pump-out/evacuation tube seal may...