US Patent Issued to AWI Licensing on April 14 for "Acoustical building panel and surface covering systems utilizing the same" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,170, issued on April 14, was assigned to AWI Licensing LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Acoustical building panel and surface covering systems utilizing the same" was invented by Ravindra Deshpande (Lancaster, Pa.) and Anthony L. Wiker (Lancaster, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are building panels and surface covering systems useful for spaces requiring acoustic control and design flexibility, and methods to prepare the same. Such building panels and surface covering systems comprise an building panel having a first major surface opposite a second major surface and a side surface extending there-between, the acoustic bu...