US Patent Issued to CERTAINTEED on Oct. 14 for "Building surface panels with aged foam backing and method of manufacture" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,194, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CERTAINTEED LLC (Malvern, Pa.).

"Building surface panels with aged foam backing and method of manufacture" was invented by Jay M. Tudor (Goodrich, Mich.), David J. Stucky (Grass Lake, Mich.), Ashley A. Schultz (Jackson, Mich.), Eishaan Gakhar (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Dev B. Barpanda (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to cladding for covering a building surface. The present disclosure relates more particularly a method of manufacturing a building surface panel. The method includes providing a foam piece having a 30 day/23deg C. residual shrin...