ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,016, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to WESTLAKE ROYAL BUILDING PRODUCTS (USA) INC. (Houston).
"Gable vent assembly with offset lock" was invented by Aundrea Nurenberg (Metamora, Mich.), Christopher Miller (Metamora, Mich.), Nathan Greenway (Metamora, Mich.) and Adam Clark (Grand Blanc, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gable vent assembly has a base that mates and locks with a cover having vents in a first position when locks of the base and cover are aligned with one another to lock together. The cover and base nest together in a second unlocked position when the cover is rotated relative to the base so that locks of the base ...