ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,949, issued on May 5, was assigned to UNILIN BV (Wielsbeke, Belgium).

"Product, panel and method for manufacturing and/or authenticating and/or tracking such product" was invented by Laurent Meersseman (Wielsbeke, Belgium), Bart Van Der Stockt (Wielsbeke, Belgium) and Benny Schacht (Wielsbeke, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A panel product and related systems and methods comprising a code directly or indirectly linked to data regarding one or more physical parameters and/or the manufacturing of said product or of the batch said product is taken from. The invention also relate to a system and method for manufacturing such panel ...