US Patent Issued to UNILIN on Dec. 16 for "Floor covering and set of components for such a floor covering" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,787, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to UNILIN BV (Wielsbeke, Belgium).

"Floor covering and set of components for such a floor covering" was invented by Els De Lepeleer (Sint-Amandsberg, Belgium) and Kristof Van Vlassenrode (Deinze, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floor covering including a flexible underfloor having at least one foamed polymer layer; one or more sheet vinyl floor elements or LVT floor elements, one or more LVT floor elements, or one or more rigid LVT floor elements, an adhesive layer that bonds the underfloor and the floor element to one another."

The patent was filed on Oct. 8, 2020, under Application No....