US Patent Issued to SQIP on Feb. 17 for "Method and apparatus for producing engineered stone slabs" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,196, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SQIP LLC (Orlando, Fla.).

"Method and apparatus for producing engineered stone slabs" was invented by Alex Xie (West Windsor, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing engineered stone slabs includes depositing fragments onto a surface and using a height limiting device to disrupt the fragments so a height of the fragments at the highest point from the supporting structure is substantially the same height as the height limiting device from the supporting structure. The method then includes using a digital printing device, in a first digital printing step, to print an image onto...