ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,659, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to XTILE S.R.L. (Sassuolo, Italy).
"Process for forming tiles and isostatic punch for forming tiles" was invented by Dealmo Incerti (Fiorano Modenese, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Process for forming tiles which provides for pressing a building material in a cell of a mold of a press by means of an isostatic punch, in which the punch has a compaction surface that is elastically deformable and provided with projections in order to attain cavities on an internal face of a tile and with recesses in order to shape feet projecting on the internal face, in which such punch comprises means for feed...