US Patent Issued on Sept. 30 for "Set of surface covering planks and method of connecting thereof" (Luxembourger Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,856, issued on Sept. 30.

"Set of surface covering planks and method of connecting thereof" was invented by Jonas Bladh (Wiltz, Luxembourg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of planks (10) for covering a surface (12), comprising a first plank (16) having a first edge (24) defining a connecting tongue (26), and a second plank (18) having a second edge (28) defining a connecting groove (30), the first plank being movable between a disconnected position and a connected position, in which the connecting tongue is snap-fit in the connecting groove, the connecting tongue comprising a distal protrusion (40A) and a proximal protrusion (40B...