ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,246, issued on May 5, was assigned to Freedom Metals Manufacturing Inc. (Duncansville, Pa.).
"Exterior trim system" was invented by Matthew J. Will (Duncansville, Pa.) and Lawrence Preston Karstetter Jr. (Roaring Spring, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Trim system devices and methods for building surfaces, such as exterior surfaces with building panels. In embodiments, a top trim panel is snap fit onto a base trim panel after the building panel has been installed. The trim system readily assembles and overhangs relatively rigid building panels without tools or precision cuts. In some embodiments, the trim system may be mounted at a ...