US Patent Issued to BMIC on June 23 for "Roofing materials and roofing systems with improved fire resistance and methods of making thereof" (New Jersey, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,817, issued on June 23, was assigned to BMIC LLC (Dallas).

"Roofing materials and roofing systems with improved fire resistance and methods of making thereof" was invented by Isaac Bernard Rufus (Newark, Del.), Adem Chich (Kearny, N.J.), Richard Chin (Livingston, N.J.), Michael Dougherty (Mount Arlington, N.J.) and Overton Williams (Paterson, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention, in embodiments, relates to a roll comprising a roofing material. The roofing material includes a substrate having a first side and a second side, and a film layer attached to at least one of the first side or the second side of the substrate, t...