US Patent Issued to UNILIN on June 3 for "Floor panels and method for producing floor panels and cutting tools used therein" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,130, issued on June 3, was assigned to UNILIN BV (Wielsbeke, Belgium).

"Floor panels and method for producing floor panels and cutting tools used therein" was invented by Jan De Rick (Geraardsbergen, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Floor panels have coupling parts in the form of a tongue and groove with locking surfaces. In a coupled state of two such panels, an open space is present, viewed vertically, between the tongue and the lower lip, and viewed horizontally, between the contact zone and the contact between the horizontally active locking surfaces. The underside of the tongue in the open space comprises a first face. The ...