US Patent Issued to Flooring Technologies on Aug. 12 for "Hard floor panel for floating installation with the formation of a flooring panel network" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,261, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Flooring Technologies Ltd. (Kalkara, Malta).

"Hard floor panel for floating installation with the formation of a flooring panel network" was invented by Marcel Zorn (Perleberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a hard floor panel having a top side and a bottom side and having side edges along the panel sides for floating installation to form a floor panel composite. At least two floor panels are joined together in each case, the opposite side edges being provided with tongue-and-groove profiles, a tongue and a joining surface is provided in a first side edge and a groove and a ...