ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,791, issued on July 14.
"Bullet resistant garage door assembly with a shell formed from coil stock" was invented by Amos B. Glick (Gap, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ballistic garage door assembly and a kit for converting a standard garage door includes metal shell panels formed from coil stock metal that uses sheets of ballistic material secured to each metal shell panel. Joint inserts applied to the horizontal ends of the garage door panels provide bullet resistant characteristics at the joints. Ballistic sheets of compressed multiple plies of ballistic material, hardened ballistic resin, or bullet resistant metal barriers, ...