US Patent Issued to Columbia Insurance on July 8 for "Resilient flooring product and methods of making same" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,561, issued on July 8, was assigned to Columbia Insurance Co. (Omaha, Neb.).

"Resilient flooring product and methods of making same" was invented by Tom Odum (Tunnel Hill, Ga.), Jay Vecsey (Canton, Ga.) and Jeff Wright (Cartersville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are resilient floor coverings produced by using digitally printed UV-cured inks and exhibiting high adhesion properties between an ink layer and a wear layer. Also described herein are methods for manufacturing same. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the pres...