US Patent Issued to VALINGE INNOVATION on July 14 for "Building panels comprising a locking system" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,315, issued on July 14, was assigned to VALINGE INNOVATION AB (Viken, Sweden).

"Building panels comprising a locking system" was invented by Christian Boo (Kagerod, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Building panels including a locking system for locking of a first edge portion to an adjacent second edge portion. The locking system includes a tongue and a tongue groove configured to cooperate for vertical locking. The tongue groove includes an upper and a lower lip protruding horizontally beyond the upper lip. In a locked state of the building panels an outer end portion of a lower vertical locking surface of the tongue is provide...