US Patent Issued to Cemco on Sept. 1 for "Two-piece deflection drift fire-rated component" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,402, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Cemco LLC (City of Industry, Calif.).

"Two-piece deflection drift fire-rated component" was invented by Donald Anthony Pilz (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fire-rated component for a fire-rated joint, such as a head-of-wall assembly, includes a fire-rated assembly that can include a fire-rated insert and a gasket profile. The fire-rated insert can be coupled to the gasket profile to form a single unit within the head-of-wall assembly. The fire-rated assembly can expand break to form a top section and a bottom section in response to heat which can act as a seal or barrier to ...