US Patent Issued to Gottlieb Binder on Sept. 29 for "Floor mat attachment" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,867, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Gottlieb Binder GmbH & Co. KG (Holzgerlingen, Germany).

"Floor mat attachment" was invented by Konstantinos Poulakis (Hildrizhausen, Germany) and Lars Heepe (Tuebingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foot mat arrangement with a floor unit and a foot mat can be fastened to the floor unit. The foot mat can be fastened to the floor unit by means of a hook-and-loop connection. The hook-and-loop connection has a first hook-and-loop element, which is fastened to the floor unit by material bonding, in particular, by a welded connection. The first hook-and-loop element can have a loop pile ...