ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,836, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to UNILIN BV (Wielsbeke, Belgium).

"Decorative panel and method for manufacturing a decorative panel" was invented by Yu Hin Li (Jiangsu, China), Jonas Deman (Sint-Amandsberg, Belgium) and Benny Schacht (Vlamertinge, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decorative panel includes a substrate and a decorative surface. The substrate includes a copolymer of an unsaturated polyester."

The patent was filed on April 13, 2022, under Application No. 18/554,817.

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