US Patent Issued to Altro on Sept. 8 for "Synthetic flooring apparatus and method" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,545, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Altro Ltd. (Letchworth Garden City, Great Britain).

"Synthetic flooring apparatus and method" was invented by Arunas Janusis (Letchworth Garden City, Great Britain) and Darren Gray (Letchworth Garden City, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A welded synthetic floor-covering material and a method of forming, the floor-covering material formed from one or more adjacent pairs of flooring elements welded together by a symmetrical lower weld which engages each flooring element substantially equally; and wherein the symmetrical lower weld is substantially free from a metallic element; and a...