US Patent Issued to VALINGE INNOVATION on June 10 for "Panels comprising a mechanical locking device and an associated assembled article" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,519, issued on June 10, was assigned to VALINGE INNOVATION AB (Viken, Sweden).

"Panels comprising a mechanical locking device and an associated assembled article" was invented by Thomas Meijer (Viken, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of panels including a first panel and a second panel configured to assume a locked state. A separate tongue arranged in an insertion groove of a groove is configured to cooperate with a tongue groove provided in an edge section of the second panel for locking the first and second panels to each other in a first direction perpendicular to the first main plane, and the edge section is configured...