ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,072, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Dal-Tile LLC (Dallas).

"Method for manufacturing an engineered stone and an engineered stone" was invented by Terry Adams (Dallas) and Claudio Caselli (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing an engineered stone, the method including: providing a mixture comprising at least a stone or stone like material and a binder; compacting the mixture; curing the binder; and further comprising printing a printed pattern on at least a top surface of the engineered stone."

The patent was filed on Aug. 31, 2023, under Application No. 18/240,571.

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