US Patent Issued to Owens Corning Intellectual Capital on April 15 for "Shingles with increased hydrophobicity" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,107, issued on April 15, was assigned to Owens Corning Intellectual Capital LLC (Toledo, Ohio).

"Shingles with increased hydrophobicity" was invented by Donn R. Vermilion (Newark, Ohio), Xiujuan Zhang (Granville, Ohio), William Brian Ward (Brookville, Ohio) and Chris Armintrout (Warsaw, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shingle includes a substrate having an asphalt coating on a top surface of the substrate and on a bottom surface of the substrate. A surface layer of granules is embedded in the asphalt on the top surface of the substrate. A backdust layer of particles is embedded in the asphalt on the bottom surface of the substra...