ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,586, issued on June 24, was assigned to Crocodile Products Inc. (Calgary, Canada).

"Composite bamboo industrial mats and methods of making the same" was invented by Dean Forbes (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are interlocking elongate composite bamboo industrial mats having an upper layer with two or more elongate laminated composite bamboo panels, an intermediate layer with a plurality of elongate laminated composite bamboo panels arranged in parallel and perpendicular to the laminated composite bamboo panels in the upper layer, and a bottom layer with a plurality of elongate laminated composite bamboo pane...