ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,567, issued on April 22, was assigned to DANZER GMBH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Multilayer composite, method for the production thereof and its use" was invented by Johannes GraBer (Dresden, Germany) and Aaron Schelter (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-layer composite at least comprising: a decorative layer comprising a first decorative material and a second decorative material, the first and the second decorative material lying in one plane in the decorative layer and having the same thickness; and a first carrier layer for a glue layer, the first carrier layer comprising a plastic which is contained in a nonwoven or ...