ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,120, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to i4F Licensing NV (Turnhout, Belgium).

"Floor panel and floor covering consisting of a plurality of such floor panels" was invented by Antonio Giuseppe Perra (Bergen, Netherlands) and Sander Gordon Zweed (Huizen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floor panel, in particular a laminated floor panel. A floor covering consisting of a plurality of mutually coupled floor panels. A method for mutually coupling two floor panels, in particular laminated floor panels."

The patent was filed on Dec. 23, 2022, under Application No. 18/088,016.

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