US Patent Issued to DE POORTERE DECO on March 17 for "Polyester carpet tile or carpet strip, and process for manufacturing a polyester carpet tile or carpet strip" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,612, issued on March 17, was assigned to DE POORTERE DECO SA (Mouscron, Belgium).

"Polyester carpet tile or carpet strip, and process for manufacturing a polyester carpet tile or carpet strip" was invented by Bert Schollier (Mouscron, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a carpet tile or carpet strip for the contract market, in particular office and commercial buildings, comprising a machine-woven carpet having warp and weft yarns, a needled felt, an intermediate layer between the needled felt and the machine-woven fabric, wherein a polyester synthetic latex coating is applied to the back face of the machi...