ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,578, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Owens Corning Intellectual Capital LLC (Toledo, Ohio).

"Polymeric wrapping material" was invented by Martin Vido (Surrey, Canada) and Haley Argersinger (Delaware, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wrapping material having three distinct polymeric layers interfaced with a woven polymeric scrim is disclosed. A first polymeric layer is formed by extruding a first polymeric coating onto the scrim. A second polymeric layer and a third polymeric layer are simultaneously formed by co-extruding a second polymeric coating onto the scrim and a third polymeric coating onto the second polymeric coating."...