US Patent Issued to VALINGE INNOVATION on July 7 for "Set of building panels comprising a locking device" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,317, issued on July 7, was assigned to VALINGE INNOVATION AB (Viken, Sweden).

"Set of building panels comprising a locking device" was invented by Karl Quist (Hoganas, Sweden), Christian Boo (Kagerod, Sweden) and Per Nygren (Ramlosa, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of building panels including a locking device for locking a first edge portion of a first panel to a second edge portion of a second panel. The locking device includes a locking element extending upwards from a lower strip provided in the first edge portion, and a locking member extending downwards from an upper strip provided in the second edge portion, wherein...