ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,951, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Flooring Technologies Ltd. (Kalkara, Malta).

"Method for determining the amount of at least one sealant applied to a side edge of a composite wood board" was invented by Norbert Kalwa (Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the amount of at least one sealing agent applied to at least one side edge of a wood-based board comprising the steps of: recording at least one NIR spectrum of a plurality of reference samples of at least one sealing agent applied to a side edge of a wood-based board; assigning the application amount of the at least one sealing ag...