ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,268, issued on March 17, was assigned to Flooring Technologies Ltd. (Kalkara, Malta).

"Method for determining adhesive penetration into at least one porous coating material" was invented by Norbert Kalwa (Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for determining the adhesive penetration into at least one porous coating material which is pressed with at least one carrier plate and at least one adhesive layer arranged on the carrier plate. The adhesive penetrates or rises into the at least one porous coating material during the pressing process."

The patent was filed on April 8, 2022, under Applic...