US Patent Issued to Flooring Technologies on March 25 for "Composition for coating and sealing the edges of wood fibre boards" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,486, issued on March 25, was assigned to Flooring Technologies Ltd. (Kalkara, Malta).

"Composition for coating and sealing the edges of wood fibre boards" was invented by Norbert Kalwa (Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany) and Andreas Gier (Mandelbachtal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition for sealing/coating the edges of wood-fibre boards is provided. The composition includes at least one compound of general formula R1aSiX(4-a) (I), and/or their hydrolysis products. X is H, OH or a hydrolyzable group selected from alkoxy-, aryloxy-, and acyloxy-, R1 is an organic radical selected from the group including alkyl, aryl, and c...