US Patent Issued to Owens Corning Intellectual Capital on April 1 for "Polymer modified asphalt roofing material" (Ohio, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,476, issued on April 1, was assigned to Owens Corning Intellectual Capital LLC (Toledo, Ohio).

"Polymer modified asphalt roofing material" was invented by Carmen Anthony LaTorre (Westerville, Ohio), Jacob Paul Honsvick (Perrysburg, Ohio), Christopher Patrick Kasprzak (Holland, Ohio), Daniel James Buckwalter (Howard, Ohio), Edward R. Harrington (Toledo, Ohio), Jonathan Ross Davis (Granville, Ohio), Laurand Henry Lewandowski (Newark, Ohio), David Michael Ploense (Downers Grove, Ill.), William Edwin Smith (Pataskala, Ohio), Scott W. Schweiger (Newark, Ohio) and Ganesh Latta (Galena, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shingle coating ...