ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,161, issued on July 22, was assigned to UNILIN BV (Wielsbeke, Belgium).

"Floor panel and method for manufacturing a floor panel" was invented by Kristof Van Vlassenrode (Deinze, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floor panel including at least one substrate and a top layer, where the substrate includes at least one first layer of a first thermoplastic material and a second layer of a second thermoplastic material. The second layer is adjacent to a first side of the first layer and the second layer provides the floor panel with its underside. The first layer is characterized by a first colour with saturation value S 1 in the HSL...