US Patent Issued to Unilin on Nov. 4 for "Floor panel for forming a floor covering and method for manufacturing such floor panels" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,426, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Unilin BV (Wielsbeke, Belgium).

"Floor panel for forming a floor covering and method for manufacturing such floor panels" was invented by Benjamin Clement (Waregem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a panel having a substrate, a decorative layer that includes a digital print, and a translucent or transparent wear layer. The method may involve providing the substrate with the digital print by jetting one or more inks from a set of inks using a digital inkjet printer. The ink may include a binding agent and/or a primer or an adhesion layer may be provided between the...