ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,071, issued on July 22, was assigned to i4F Licensing NV (Turnhout, Belgium).
"Panel" was invented by Eddy Alberic Boucke (Turnhout, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A panel, in particular a floor panel, including at least one first coupling part and at least one second coupling part connected respectively to opposite edges of the core, which first coupling part includes an upward tongue, at least one upward flank lying at a distance from the upward tongue and an upward groove, which second coupling part includes a downward tongue, at least one downward flank lying at a distance from the downward tongue, and a downward groove, ...