ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,787, issued on March 17, was assigned to i4F Licensing NV (Turnhout, Belgium).
"Decorative panel, in particular a wall, ceiling or floor panel, and a covering constructed by a multitude of such panels" was invented by Eddy Alberic Boucke (Turnhout, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Panel, in particular a wall, ceiling or floor panel, of a planar design having a top side, a bottom side and side edges, which panel is constructed from a laminate structure of layers that are adhered to each other, wherein the layers include a core layer, a decorative layer which includes a decorative image on its upper side, which decorative layer ...