US Patent Issued to Dal-Tile on Nov. 4 for "Floor element for forming a floor covering, a floor covering, and a method of manufacturing a floor element" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,425, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Dal-Tile LLC (Dallas).

"Floor element for forming a floor covering, a floor covering, and a method of manufacturing a floor element" was invented by Rahul Patki (Richardson, Texas) and Claudio Caselli (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floor element for forming a floor covering, wherein the floor element comprises a decorative layer made of a ceramic material and a support layer arranged below the decorative layer, wherein the support layer comprises edges provided with coupling elements configured to allow a mechanical coupling with coupling elements of an adjacent floor element and wherei...