ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,899, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to i4F Licensing NV (Turnhout, Belgium).

"Multi-purpose tile system, tile covering, and tile" was invented by Eddy Alberic Boucke (Turnhout, Belgium) and Pieter Renaat Karel Devos (Koolskamp, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-purpose tile system, in particular a floor tile system, including a plurality of multi-purpose tiles, in particular floor tiles, wall tiles, or ceiling tiles. A tile covering, in particular floor covering, ceiling covering, or wall covering, consisting of mutually coupled tiles according to the invention. A tile for use in multi-purpose tile system according to...