US Patent Issued to TARKETT GDL on June 23 for "Digital embossing of decorative surface coverings" (Luxembourger Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,925, issued on June 23, was assigned to TARKETT GDL (Lentzweiler, Luxembourg).

"Digital embossing of decorative surface coverings" was invented by Diego Gourdin (Wiltz, Luxembourg), Richard Peres (Wiltz, Luxembourg) and Jean-Yves Simon (Wiltz, Luxembourg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present invention relate to a resilient multilayer decorative surface covering and a method for producing a resilient multilayer decorative surface covering. The method comprises providing a substrate (36) and digitally embossing a coating on the substrate. Digitally embossing the coating comprises applying a plurality of plastisol or org...