US Patent Issued on May 20 for "Thermoplastic mat, process for the manufacture thereof and uses of same" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,120, issued on May 20.

"Thermoplastic mat, process for the manufacture thereof and uses of same" was invented by Jean-Paul Vieslet (Liege, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a stable mat (10) based on thermoplastic materials, comprising a core of compacted plastics (14), the cohesion of which is provided by spot thermal fusion (18) in the core of the mass, and a skin obtained by surface thermal fusion and/or a thermoplastic shell (12) firmly attached to the core by localized thermal fusion. Such a mat may serve as bases for civil engineering constructions, for the distribution of loads in the case...