ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,793, issued on March 17, was assigned to i4F Licensing NV (Turnhout, Belgium).

"Panel, in particular a floor, ceiling, or wall panel; a covering constructed by a multitude of such panels; and a method for the recycling of such a panel" was invented by Eddy Alberic Boucke (Turnhout, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A panel, in particular a floor, ceiling, or wall panel, of a planar design having a top side, a bottom side and multiple side edges, which panel has a laminated structure of layers that are adhered to each other. The layers extend parallel to the plane of the panel, and include a core layer having a lower side and an...