E04F 15/16
Flooring
Official title: Flooring, e.g. parquet on flexible web, laid as flexible webs; Webs specially adapted for use as flooring; {Parquet on flexible web}(resiliently-mounted floors, e.g. sprung floors, E04F15/22; linoleum D06N; {carpets A47G27/00})
E04F15/16 (Flooring) appears on 115 US grants and 163 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E04F- Granted patents
- 115
- Published applications
- 163
- Assignees
- 80
- Inventors
- 260
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 3 |
| 2003 | 4 | 1 |
| 2004 | 3 | 4 |
| 2005 | 0 | 6 |
| 2006 | 2 | 6 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 3 |
| 2010 | 1 | 6 |
| 2011 | 0 | 5 |
| 2012 | 2 | 3 |
| 2013 | 3 | 9 |
| 2014 | 3 | 7 |
| 2015 | 3 | 13 |
| 2016 | 8 | 17 |
| 2017 | 9 | 9 |
| 2018 | 9 | 7 |
| 2019 | 9 | 11 |
| 2020 | 5 | 6 |
| 2021 | 7 | 5 |
| 2022 | 5 | 9 |
| 2023 | 2 | 5 |
| 2024 | 11 | 10 |
| 2025 | 7 | 11 |
| 2026 | 5 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Roll-up interchangeable tile system6 Oct 2026US 12,753,612 B2
- Resilient flooring product and methods of making same15 Sep 2026US 12,735,901 B2Columbia Insurance Company
- Synthetic flooring apparatus and method8 Sep 2026US 12,729,545 B2Altro Limited
- Spacer for joining and seam sealing floor coverings16 Jun 2026US 12,655,643 B2
- Co-foamable PVC plastisol composition and co-foamed PVC layer for floor covering19 May 2026US 12,631,032 B2Beaulieu International Group NV
- Method of assembling a floor construction13 Aug 2026US 2026/0234058 A1Sika Technology AG
- Resilient flooring product and methods of making same14 May 2026US 2026/0132638 A1Columbia Insurance Company
- Spacer for joining and seam sealing floor coverings22 Jan 2026US 2026/0022573 A1
- Custom Decorative Articles and System, Apparatus, and Method for Providing Same1 Jan 2026US 2026/0002778 A1Shaw Industries Group, Inc.
- Custom Decorative Articles and System, Apparatus, and Method for Providing the Same1 Jan 2026US 2026/0002779 A1Shaw Industries Group, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Floor covering/wall covering87US 5,082,712 A1992
- Decorative board having hot-melt resin joints64US 4,953,335 AEidai Industry Co., Ltd. · 1990
- Underlayment composite and associated flooring installation system45US 6,599,599 B1AWI Licensing LLC · 2003
- Tile with wide coupling configuration and method for the same40US 7,849,642 B2Connor Sport Court International, Inc. · 2010
- Unitized floor panel and method of laying the same38US 4,543,765 A1985