ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,030, issued on May 19, was assigned to SUNCAST TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Decorative plastic panel and method of fabricating decorative plastic panels" was invented by Stephen Whitehead (Elgin, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive system for use in a polymeric formulation (plastic) that includes a plurality of visually differentiable elongated streaks contained in a mono-colored base, the visually differentiable elongated streaks are composed of a pigmented material having a random pattern and elongated due to the manufacturing process. The visually differentiable streaks are composed of at least two colo...