US Patent Issued to Gold Bond Building Products on May 13 for "Sound damping gypsum board and method of constructing a sound damping gypsum board" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,572, issued on May 13, was assigned to Gold Bond Building Products LLC (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Sound damping gypsum board and method of constructing a sound damping gypsum board" was invented by Joseph J. Bailey (Charlotte, N.C.), Richard Weir (Indian Trail, N.C.), R. G. Iyer (Charlotte, N.C.), Eli Stav (Charlotte, N.C.) and Bradley J. Busche (Shelby, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to an improved gypsum board, such as an improved sound damping gypsum board, and a method of making such gypsum board. For instance, the method comprises: providing a first encasing layer and a first sound damping layer o...