Patents Assigned to I4F Licensing NV
  • Patent number: 12280581
    Abstract: A panel, in particular a floor, ceiling, or wall panel, of a planar design having a top side and bottom side, and multiple side edges, which panel has a structure of laminated layers that are adhered to each other, wherein the laminated layers extend parallel to the plane of the panel, and include a core layer having a lower side and an upper side, and a top layer which is provided on the upper side of the core layer either directly or indirectly, wherein at least two layers of the laminated structure, in particular the top layer and the core layer, are directly or indirectly adhered to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: i4F Licensing NV
    Inventor: Eddy Alberic Boucké
  • Patent number: 12264481
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-purpose tile system configured to being joined in a chevron pattern, wherein each tile includes a first pair of opposing edges consisting of a first edge and an opposite second edge and a second pair of opposing edges consisting of a third edge and an opposing fourth edge, wherein the first pair of opposing edges have pairs of opposing first mechanical coupling means for locking together said tiles at least vertically, and the second pair of opposing edges have pairs of opposing second mechanical coupling means for locking together said tiles at least vertically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: i4F Licensing NV
    Inventor: Eddy Alberic Boucké
  • Patent number: 12247405
    Abstract: The invention relates to a glue-down decorative floor covering system. The invention also relates to a glue-down floor covering realized by a plurality of tiles of the glue-down floor covering system according to the invention. The invention further relates to a tile for use in a glue-down floor covering system according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: i4F Licensing NV
    Inventor: Eddy Alberic Boucké
  • Patent number: 12240207
    Abstract: Flooring planks with a core that comprises calcium carbonate. Such planks can also comprise a veneer. The core can also comprise further components such as a resin. Methods of manufacturing same are also disclosed. For example, such flooring planks can be waterproof and/or resistant to moisture and/or heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: i4F Licensing NV
    Inventor: Daniel Séguin
  • Patent number: 12221793
    Abstract: A floor board including a decorative surface layer applied to a substrate, where the substrate is optionally MDF or HDF material at a side edge thereof, and at least one side edge together with a side edge opposite thereto forming a first pair of opposite side edges of said substrate. The first pair of opposite side edges includes mechanical first and second coupling parts, respectively, allowing the floor board to be coupled at the respective side edges with a similar floor board. Also, a floor board covering consisting of a plurality of the floor boards and a method for manufacturing such floor boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: i4F Licensing NV
    Inventor: Pieter Renaat Karel Devos
  • Patent number: 12215506
    Abstract: In the field of decorative floor coverings, decorative panels are known having a MDF (Medium Density Board) or HDF (High Density Board) based core layer on top of which a decorative substrate is attached to provide the panels a desired appearance. The invention relates to a panel, in particular a decorative panel, a floor panel, a ceiling panel or a wall panel. The invention also relates to a floor covering consisting of a plurality of mutually coupled panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: i4F Licensing NV
    Inventor: Eddy Alberic Boucké
  • Patent number: 12202187
    Abstract: A method of producing a glueless dustless composite flooring material system providing PVC-based flooring having waterproof layers providing different qualities of hardness, wear-resistance, sound deadening, and decorative patterns, avoiding the use of moisture-susceptible compressed cellulose-based filler, with layers fused together, avoiding the manufacturing complexity and delamination risks of using glue or adhesive, with a quickly-cured, UV-cured top coating providing long-lasting high performance and shortening and simplifying the manufacturing, which can be done in a sheet-form, essentially continuous-run manner, with an ability to quickly and simply change the optional design printing and texturing produced, and having an optional underlayment layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: i4F Licensing NV
    Inventor: John B. Troendle
  • Patent number: 12203275
    Abstract: A floor board including a decorative surface layer applied to a substrate, where the substrate is optionally MDF or HDF material at a side edge thereof, and at least one side edge together with a side edge opposite thereto forming a first pair of opposite side edges of said substrate. The first pair of opposite side edges includes mechanical first and second coupling parts, respectively, allowing the floor board to be coupled at the respective side edges with a similar floor board. Also, a floor board covering consisting of a plurality of the floor boards and a method for manufacturing such floor boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: i4F Licensing NV
    Inventor: Pieter Renaat Karel Devos
  • Patent number: 12188226
    Abstract: A wall panel for forming a wall covering with multiple panels, including a centrally located core. The core includes a rear side, a decorative side opposite the rear side, and at least two sides including coupling parts for mutual coupling of several panels. The coupling parts are arranged to be coupled with an angling motion. A new panel is arranged to be angled into a panel already forming part of the wall covering. The coupling parts include at least one first coupling part and at least one second coupling part arranged on opposite sides of the core. The first coupling part includes a sideward tongue, an upper bridge portion for connecting the sideward tongue to the core and a downward groove, for accommodating at least a parts of an upward locking element. The second coupling part includes a groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: i4F Licensing NV
    Inventor: Eddy Alberic Boucké
  • Patent number: 12168878
    Abstract: In the field of decorative floor coverings, decorative panels are known having a MDF (Medium Density Board) or HDF (High Density Board) based core layer on top of which a decorative substrate is attached to provide the panels a desired appearance. The invention relates to a panel, in particular a decorative panel, a floor panel, a ceiling panel or a wall panel. The invention also relates to a floor covering consisting of a plurality of mutually coupled panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: i4F Licensing NV
    Inventor: Eddy Alberic Boucké
  • Patent number: 12158011
    Abstract: A panel that includes a centrally located core provided with an upper side and a lower side, which core defines a plane, at least one first coupling part and at least one second coupling part connected respectively to opposite edges of the core. The at least one first coupling part includes an upward tongue, at least one upward flank lying at a distance from the upward tongue and an upward groove formed in between the upward tongue and the upward flank wherein the upward groove is adapted to receive at least a part of a downward tongue of a second coupling part of an adjacent panel. The at least one second coupling part includes a downward tongue, at least one downward flank lying at a distance from the downward tongue, and a downward groove formed in between the downward tongue and the downward flank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: i4F Licensing NV
    Inventor: Eddy Alberic Boucké
  • Patent number: 12157290
    Abstract: The invention relates to a decorative panel, in particular a floor panel, ceiling panel or wall panel, and to a method for manufacturing such decorative panel. The panel according to the present invention comprises includes at least one foamed layer comprising including an upper side and a lower side, and at least one decorative solid layer either directly or indirectly, affixed on said upper side of the foamed layer, wherein both the foamed layer and the decorative solid layer are wood based materials. The invention also relates to a floor covering consisting of a plurality of such panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: i4F Licensing NV
    Inventors: Eddy Alberic Boucké, Sander Gordon Zweed
  • Patent number: 12158012
    Abstract: A panel including a centrally located core, at least one first coupling part and at least one second coupling part connected respectively to opposite edges of the core, which first coupling part includes an upward tongue, at least one upward flank lying at a distance from the upward tongue and an upward grooved formed in between the upward tongue and the upward flank wherein the upward groove is adapted to receive at least a part of a downward tongue of a second coupling part of an adjacent panel; which second coupling part includes a downward tongue, at least one downward flank lying at a distance from the downward tongue, and a downward groove formed in between the downward tongue and the downward flank, wherein the downward groove is adapted to receive at least a part of an upward tongue of a first coupling part of an adjacent panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: i4F Licensing NV
    Inventor: Eddy Alberic Boucké
  • Patent number: 12158010
    Abstract: Provided is a panel including at least one first coupling part. The first coupling part includes an upward tongue, at least one upward flank lying at a distance from the upward tongue and an upward groove formed in between the upward tongue and the upward flank. The side of the upward tongue facing towards the upward flank is the inside of the upward tongue and the side of the upward tongue facing away from the upward flank is the outside of the upward tongue. At least a part of an upper side of the upward tongue is inclined relative to the plane of the panel, such that the upper side of the upward tongue includes a highest point. The upward tongue has a width, wherein the highest point of the upward tongue is arranged less than 50% of the width from the outside of the upward tongue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: i4F Licensing NV
    Inventor: Daniël Casper Settels
  • Patent number: 12139917
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tile panel which includes a support panel which is essentially flat and has a top side onto which one or more tiles are adhered by an adhesive, wherein the support panel is made from a material which is different than the material from which the one or more tiles are made, and the top side of the support panel includes a recessed structure in which the adhesive is present. The invention also relates to a surface covering, in particular for a floor, ceiling or wall surface, which is constructed by a multitude of neighbouring tile panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: i4F Licensing NV
    Inventor: Eddy Alberic Boucké
  • Patent number: 12123202
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-purpose tile system, in particular a floor tile system, comprising a plurality of multi-purpose tiles, in particular floor Liles, wall tiles, or ceiling tiles. The invention also relates to a tile covering, in particular floor covering, ceiling covering, or wall covering, consisting of mutually coupled tiles according to the invention. The invention further relates to a tile for use in multi-purpose tile system according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignees: i4F Licensing NV, TOWER IPCO Company Limited
    Inventors: Eddy Alberic Boucké, Jacobus Gerardus Nicolaas Laurentius Veeken
  • Patent number: 12110692
    Abstract: In the field of decorative floor coverings, decorative panels are known having a MDF (Medium Density Board) or HDF (High Density Board) based core layer on top of which a decorative substrate is attached to provide the panels a desired appearance. The invention relates to a panel, in particular a decorative panel, a floor panel, a ceiling panel or a wall panel. The invention also relates to a floor covering consisting of a plurality of mutually coupled panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: i4F Licensing NV
    Inventor: Eddy Alberic Boucké
  • Patent number: 12110693
    Abstract: A floor board including a decorative surface layer applied to a substrate, where the substrate is optionally MDF or HDF material at a side edge thereof, and at least one side edge together with a side edge opposite thereto forming a first pair of opposite side edges of said substrate. The first pair of opposite side edges includes mechanical first and second coupling parts, respectively, allowing the floor board to couple at the respective side edges with a similar floor board. Also, a floor board covering consisting of a plurality of the floor boards connected to one another, and a method for manufacturing such floor boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: i4F Licensing NV
    Inventor: Pieter Renaat Karel Devos
  • Patent number: 12084870
    Abstract: A panel, including a centrally located core provided with an upper side and a lower side, at least one first coupling part and at least one second coupling part connected respectively to opposite edges of the core, which first coupling part comprises an upward tongue, at least one upward flank lying at a distance from the upward tongue and an upward groove formed in between the upward tongue and the at least one upward flank, wherein a recessed portion is shaped like a triangle and the underside of the upward tongue is at an angle; wherein at least a part the side of the upward tongue facing away from the at least one upward flank is located at a distance from at least a part of the at least one upward flank; and wherein the recessed portion extends over at least 90% of the distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: i4F Licensing NV
    Inventor: Eddy Alberic Boucké
  • Patent number: 12065778
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tile, in particular a carpet tile. The invention also relates to the use a tile according to the invention as floor tile, wall tile, or ceiling tile. The invention further relates to a tile covering consisting of a plurality of tiles according to the invention. The invention additionally relates to a carpet covering consisting of at least one carpet tile according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: i4F Licensing NV
    Inventor: Eddy Alberic Boucké