US Patent Issued to UNILIN on Oct. 27 for "Decorative panel" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,720, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to UNILIN BV (Wielsbeke, Belgium).

"Decorative panel" was invented by Benjamin Clement (Waregem, Belgium), Sam Ledegen (Ghent, Belgium) and Marijn Seynaeve (Moen, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decorative panel includes a substrate and a wear layer. The wear layer has a varnish coat that includes hard particles over its entire thickness. The hard particles have an S50 particle size determined from the cumulative particle size distribution according to volume measured by laser diffraction as the particle size at which 50% of the hard particles are smaller than this particle size S50. The ...