ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,800, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Flooring Technologies Ltd. (Kalkara, Malta).

"Method for producing a veneered board" was invented by Norbert Kalwa (Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany) and Joachim Hasch (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a veneered board having a veneer and a carrier board, to provide a veneered board having improved use properties. The method includes: providing a veneer having an upper face and a lower face, applying an additive onto the lower face of the veneer, applying a binder onto the lower face of the veneer, heating the binder, producing a stack of materials to be pressed, having a ...