US Patent Issued to Mannington Mills on Aug. 12 for "Device and methods for making a stair tread and a molded curved stair tread" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,257, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Mannington Mills Inc. (Salem, N.J.).

"Device and methods for making a stair tread and a molded curved stair tread" was invented by Keith Bodendorf (Medford, N.J.), Dennis H. Bradway (Salem, N.J.) and Joseph F. Finlaw (Pennsville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for making a molded stair tread is described. The device can have: a base; a pivoting assembly; a molding template connected to the pivoting assembly; a holding device connected to the molding template, the holding device having a clamp jaw and a pivot configured to rotate the holding device relative to the molding template;...