ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,316, issued on July 14, was assigned to GERFLOR (Lyons, France).
"Sports flooring in tile or plank form" was invented by Pierrick Paillot (Lyons, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sports flooring in the form of a tile or plank with free installation and including coupling with an adjacent tile or plank. The flooring includes successively, from top to bottom, and bonded together: a surface layer including at least one flexible layer with a thickness between 0.3 mm and 1 mm and a compression modulus between 10 MPa and 100 MPa; a rigid intermediate layer with a thickness between 3.5 mm and 7 mm and a flexural modulus between 1000 ...