US Patent Issued to VALINGE INNOVATION on Dec. 30 for "Mechanical locking of floor panels with a flexible bristle tongue" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,884, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to VALINGE INNOVATION AB (Viken, Sweden).

"Mechanical locking of floor panels with a flexible bristle tongue" was invented by Darko Pervan (Viken, Sweden) and Agne Palsson (Hasslarp, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Floor panels which are provided with a mechanical locking system including a displaceable tongue in a displacement groove. The tongue is moulded and provided with bendable protrusions. A building panel having an edge portion provided with a groove, in which a tongue formed as a separate part is received, wherein the tongue includes at least two bow shaped protrusions at a first lo...