US Patent Issued to Unilin on July 21 for "Method for manufacturing panels having a decorative surface" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,227, issued on July 21, was assigned to Unilin BV (Wielsbeke, Belgium).

"Method for manufacturing panels having a decorative surface" was invented by Benjamin Clement (Waregem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for manufacturing a printed paper layer. The method may involve providing the paper layer with a printed pattern. Providing the printed pattern may involve depositing water based inks using a digital inkjet printer. The water based inks may be pigment containing inks. The dry weight of the deposited pigment containing inks may be lower than 9 grams per square meter. The paper layer may include an inkj...