US Patent Issued to UNILIN on Oct. 14 for "Floor panels" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,082, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to UNILIN BV (Wielsbeke, Belgium).

"Floor panels" was invented by Kristof Van Vlassenrode (Deinze, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floor panel including a top layer and a substrate, where the substrate at least one first layer of a first thermoplastic material and a second layer of a second thermoplastic material, where the second layer is adjacent to a first side of the first layer. The first layer is characterized by a first colour with luminance value L1 in the HSL colour space and the second layer is characterized by a second colour with luminance value L2 in the HSL colour space, whe...