US Patent Issued to BART OERLEMANS on July 28 for "Panel" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,709, issued on July 28, was assigned to BART OERLEMANS BV (Heeswijk Dinther, Netherlands).

"Panel" was invented by Bart Oerlemans (Heeswijk Dinther, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rectangular panel comprises at each of its four edges a profile selected from a first profile, a second profile, and a third profile. The tongues and grooves of the three profiles are configured such that the panel edge or edges provided with the first profile can be coupled onto the panel edge or panel edges provided with the second profile of another such panel as well as onto the panel edge or panel edges provided with the third profile of ...