US Patent Issued to Dal-Tile on July 22 for "Floor element for forming a floor covering, a floor covering, and a method for manufacturing a floor element" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,073, issued on July 22, was assigned to Dal-Tile LLC (Dallas).

"Floor element for forming a floor covering, a floor covering, and a method for manufacturing a floor element" was invented by Rahul Patki (Richardson, Texas) and Claudio Caselli (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floor element for forming a floor covering, wherein the floor element comprises a decorative layer made of a ceramic material, an intermediate layer having a resin material that permeates a lower surface of the decorative layer, and a support layer arranged below this decorative layer, wherein the support layer comprises edges provided with coupling elemen...