US Patent Issued to i4F Licensing on March 17 for "Decorative panel, and decorative floor covering consisting of said panels" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,790, issued on March 17, was assigned to i4F Licensing NV (Turnhout, Belgium).

"Decorative panel, and decorative floor covering consisting of said panels" was invented by Eddy Alberic Boucke (Turnhout, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decorative panel including a core provided with an upper side and a lower side, a decorative top structure affixed, either directly or indirectly, on the upper side of the core, a first panel edge comprising a first coupling profile, and a second panel edge comprising a second coupling profile designed to interlockingly engage with the first coupling profile of an adjacent panel, both in a hori...