ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,581, issued on April 22, was assigned to i4F Licensing NV (Turnhout, Belgium).
"Panel, in particular a floor, ceiling, or wall panel; a covering constructed by a multitude of such panels; and a method for the recycling of such a panel" was invented by Eddy Alberic Boucke (Menen, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A panel, in particular a floor, ceiling, or wall panel, of a planar design having a top side and bottom side, and multiple side edges, which panel has a structure of laminated layers that are adhered to each other, wherein the laminated layers extend parallel to the plane of the panel, and include a core layer having a lo...