ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,441, issued on July 15, was assigned to Westlake Royal Building Products Inc. (Houston).

"Building cladding systems and methods of use thereof" was invented by Amitabha Kumar (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Building cladding systems with changeable appearances are described. The building cladding system may include a plurality of panels, a substrate, and a controller configured to move the plurality of panels relative to the substrate to change the appearance of the building cladding system, while protecting the substrate. Moving the plurality of panels to change the appearance of the building cladding system may include ...