ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,445, issued on June 17, was assigned to VALINGE INNOVATION AB (Viken, Sweden).
"Method to produce a building panel and a semi-finished product" was invented by Hans Persson (Perstorp, Sweden) and Marcus Bergelin (Lerberget, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to produce a building panel, including: providing a substrate, applying a thermosetting binder in dry form on the substrate for forming a sub-layer, applying a sheet on the sub-layer, and pressing the substrate, the sub-layer and the sheet together to form a building panel, thereby the thermosetting binder of the sub-layer impregnates the sheet from below. Also, a sem...