ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,887, issued on March 18.
"Method for manufacturing a cuttable cladding panel with a matching pattern" was invented by Francisco Sanchis Brines (Valencia, Spain) and Arturo Del Saz Salazar (La Pobla de Vallbona, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a cuttable cladding panel with a matching pattern, the use, and the design method thereof. The cladding panel comprises an irregular pattern (10) of elongated lines, veins, and/or strips; transverse cutting lines (20) all of them cutting through the pattern at identical transverse intersecting points symmetrical with respect to a longitudinal axis of symmet...