ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,799, issued on April 14, was assigned to MIGHTY FIRE BREAKER LLC (Lima, Ohio).

"Class-a fire-protected wood building products provided with class-a fire protection, and surface treatment process for producing the same" was invented by Stephen Conboy (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Class-A fire-protected wood product include: a wood product having exterior wood surfaces and being selected from the group consisting of finger-jointed wood products, dimensioned lumber products, cross-laminated timber (CLT) products, and engineered wood products (EWPs); and thin potassium salt crystalline coatings formed on the exterio...