US Patent Issued to Aladdin Manufacturing on April 14 for "Floor panel and methods for manufacturing floor panels" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,186, issued on April 14, was assigned to Aladdin Manufacturing Corp. (Calhoun, Ga.).

"Floor panel and methods for manufacturing floor panels" was invented by Aaron Shaw (High Point, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floor panel with a substrate, a decorative layer of wood veneer with a thickness of 1 millimeter or less on the substrate, and a lacquer layer including transparent or translucent surface material on the wood veneer. The lacquer layer can have hard particles. The lacquer layer can extend from the upper surface of the wood veneer at least up to a side edge of the wood veneer, such that the side edge is at least partia...