ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,816, issued on May 27, was assigned to VALINGE INNOVATION AB (Viken, Sweden).
"Building panel with a mechanical locking system" was invented by Christian Boo (Kagerod, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of essentially identical panels, such as building panels, provided with a mechanical locking system including a displaceable tongue, which is arranged in a displacement groove with a first opening at a first edge of a first panel. The displaceable tongue is configured to cooperate with a first tongue groove, with a second opening at a second edge of an adjacent second panel, for vertical locking of the first and the second ed...