ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,734, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Redeahold Apeldoorn B.V. (Wapenveld, Netherlands).

"Synthetic flashing material" was invented by Lawrence Fabian Batenburg (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Roeland Hans Ferdinand Van Delden (Apeldoorn, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to a synthetic flashing material, to a method of preparing the synthetic flashing material, and to a method for using the synthetic flashing material, and to the use as insulating material. The synthetic flashing material comprises an amount of polymer material of 75 wt. % or more, wherein the content of metals in the synthetic flas...