ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,368, issued on April 7, was assigned to BMIC LLC (Dallas).

"Roofing model kit that is a scalable replica of a commercial roofing system" was invented by Benjamin Runyan (Dallas), Van Taylor (Dallas) and Cameron Baher (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roofing mock-up kit includes a container having at least two sides, at least one side is clear so as to visually display contents within the container, and at least three modular interchangeable roofing components, the at least three modular interchangeable roofing components configured to be assembled by a user, the modular interchangeable roofing components positionable in an as...