ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,523, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to i4F Licensing NV (Turnhout, Belgium).

"Decorative panel, and covering of such decorative panels" was invented by Eddy Alberic Boucke (Turnhout, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decorative panel including at least at a first pair of opposite edges, a first coupling part and a second coupling part allowing that several of such panels can be coupled to each other, whereby the first and second coupling parts, in coupled condition of two of such panels, provide a locking in a first direction perpendicular to a plane of the panels, as well as in a second direction perpendicular to respective ed...