US Patent Issued to Owens Corning Intellectual Capital on Aug. 4 for "Multi-material sheathing system with improved thermal insulation" (Ohio, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,804, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Owens Corning Intellectual Capital LLC (Toledo, Ohio).

"Multi-material sheathing system with improved thermal insulation" was invented by Hai Fu (Pataskala, Ohio), Shu Situ-Loewenstein (Lake Elmo, Minn.), Xiaomin Guo (New Albany, Ohio), Chase Boudreaux (Canton, Ohio), Jeff Thomas (Mogadore, Ohio), Mitchell Weekley (Tallmadge, Ohio), Christine Heppe (Norton, Ohio) and Laura Frazier (Kent, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheathing system that envelops a building structure combines lightweight structural layers and a high R-value insulation layer. The insulation layer includes a coated insulat...