ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,729, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Owens Corning Intellectual Capital LLC (Toledo, Ohio).

"Formulation for a fibrous non-woven facing material" was invented by Hitesh Khandelwal (Zwolle, Netherlands), Domenico Lacamera (Amsterdam), Paul Geel (Heaveadorp, Netherlands) and Joshua Ritterbex (Renkum, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a formulation for a fibrous non-woven facing material, wherein the formulation comprises a binder, a filler, and an extender. The extender has an median particle size, d50, which is equal to or less than 3.5 micro metre, and a non-spherical morphology. The filler ha...