US Patent Issued to Shaw Industries Group on Dec. 9 for "Acoustic decorative article with multilayered porosity base" (American, Chinese, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,562, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Shaw Industries Group Inc. (Dalton, Ga.).

"Acoustic decorative article with multilayered porosity base" was invented by Anthony Drevet (Chattanooga, Tenn.), Shawn Liao (Taichung, Taiwan) and Jing Ouyang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved decorative article that may be used as a decorative flooring panel. The decorative article comprises a laminated structure having a core layer and a top layer. The core layer includes separate upper and lower sections with different compressibility resistances, such that the upper section of the core layer exhibits a lower compressibility resist...