US Patent Issued to MP Global Products on May 13 for "Fiber board providing rigidity, sound reduction, and thermal insulation" (Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,640, issued on May 13, was assigned to MP Global Products LLC (Norfolk, Neb.).

"Fiber board providing rigidity, sound reduction, and thermal insulation" was invented by Alan B. Collison (Pierce, Neb.), Reid Borgman (Norfolk, Neb.), Dylan Pospisil (Battle Creek, Neb.) and Carl Fuelberth (Norfolk, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber board for a building structure is disclosed. The fiber board includes a fiber structure. The fiber structure includes a substrate fiber and a thermoplastic binder fiber. The substrate fiber is bound together by the thermoplastic binder fiber. The thermoplastic binder fiber makes up between 25 percen...