US Patent Issued to i4F Licensing on Oct. 14 for "Floor board and method for manufacturing such floor boards" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,197, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to i4F Licensing NV (Turnhout, Belgium).

"Floor board and method for manufacturing such floor boards" was invented by Pieter Renaat Karel Devos (Turnhout, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floor board including a decorative surface layer applied to a substrate, where the substrate is optionally MDF or HDF material at a side edge thereof, and at least one side edge together with a side edge opposite thereto forming a first pair of opposite side edges of said substrate. The first pair of opposite side edges includes mechanical first and second coupling parts, respectively, allowing the floor ...