US Patent Issued to VALINGE INNOVATION on Aug. 18 for "Building panel with a mechanical locking system" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,901, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to VALINGE INNOVATION AB (Viken, Sweden).

"Building panel with a mechanical locking system" was invented by Thomas Meijer (Viken, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of panels configured to be locked together by a flexible tongue which includes a flexible element and an opposite flexible element, wherein an end of the flexible element and an end of the opposite flexible element are connected to a connecting part, wherein an outer end of the flexible element and an outer end of the opposite flexible element each includes a protruding part, wherein the protruding part of the flexible element...