US Patent Issued to TARKETT GDL on Dec. 2 for "Hybrid acoustic floor panel" (Luxembourger Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,654, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TARKETT GDL (Lentzweiler, Luxembourg).

"Hybrid acoustic floor panel" was invented by Benjamin Mathieu-Chef (Wiltz, Luxembourg), Mathieu Coquelle (Wiltz, Luxembourg) and Nicolas Boquillon (Wiltz, Luxembourg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floor panel includes a rigid base slab of thermoplastic material and a flexible decorative top structure fixed on the base slab, the top structure including a wear layer for forming a walking surface of the floor panel, and the top structure including at least one footfall sound reducing foam layer arranged between the wear layer and the base slab."

The patent ...