US Patent Issued to Unilin on May 13 for "Method for manufacturing a decorative foil and a panel comprising such foil" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,608, issued on May 13, was assigned to Unilin BV (Wielsbeke, Belgium).

"Method for manufacturing a decorative foil and a panel comprising such foil" was invented by Benjamin Clement (Waregem, Belgium) and Sam Ledegen (Ghent, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a decorative foil may involve providing a thermoplastic carrier layer. An ink receiving layer may be provided to the carrier layer. A decorative pattern may be formed on the carrier layer by performing a digital printing operation wherein droplets of aqueous inks having a volume smaller than 100 pL are jet to the carrier layer, more particularly to...