US Patent Issued to Shaw Industries Group on Nov. 11 for "Methods of forming bevels in flooring planks" (Chinese, Null Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,108, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Shaw Industries Group Inc. (Dalton, Ga.).

"Methods of forming bevels in flooring planks" was invented by Jerry Yang (Shanghai), Felix J. Herrera (Hanoi, Viet Nam) and Bryant Nie (JiaXing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a novel technique for creating bevels along the edges of flooring planks having a hard and rigid core layer, preferably comprising a magnesium-based cement or other type of curable binder material. The disclosed embodiments use the inherent time it takes for a cement binder in the core layer to harden and cure to concurrently shape bevels alo...