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US 12,619,949 B2Granted
Product, panel and method for manufacturing and/or authenticating and/or tracking such product
AssigneeUnilin BV
InventorsLaurent Meersseman, Bart Van Der Stockt, Benny Schacht
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Abstract
A panel product and related systems and methods comprising a code directly or indirectly linked to data regarding one or more physical parameters and/or the manufacturing of said product or of the batch said product is taken from. The invention also relate to a system and method for manufacturing such panel products, as well as to a method for authenticating and/or tracking panel products with computer-traceable data linked to the code.
Claims22
A system for tracking at least one panel product for making a floor covering, the system comprising:
- at least one processor;
- at least one computer storage media storing computer-traceable data managed by the at least one processor, the computer-traceable data comprising digital data regarding the at least one panel product;
- at least one computer-readable code displayed and disposed in a visual and physical medium on the at least one panel product, the at least one computer-readable code providing a link to the digital data stored on the at least one computer storage media;
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- at least one scanner device configured to read the at least one computer-readable code and transfer code-specific information of the at least one computer-readable code to the at least one processor, the computer-traceable data comprising the code-specific information of the at least one computer-readable code;
- wherein, after installation, the at least one computer-readable code is carried by a surface of the at least one panel product;
- wherein the at least one processor, the at least one computer storage media, and the at least one scanner device are communicatively coupled by a network to transfer the computer-traceable data;
- wherein the link to the digital data provides access to information of one or more parameters of the at least one panel product to check against the at least one panel product;
- wherein the information of one or more parameters of the at least one panel product comprises one or more physical parameters, manufacturing parameters, or both physical and manufacturing parameters of the at least one panel product.
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A system for tracking at least one panel product for making a floor covering, the system comprising:
- at least one processor;
- at least one computer storage media storing computer-traceable data managed by the at least one processor, the computer-traceable data comprising digital data regarding the at least one panel product;
- a plurality of computer-readable codes displayed and disposed in a visual and physical medium on the at least one panel product, the plurality of computer-readable codes being identical and/or providing a, preferably identical, link to the digital data stored on the at least one computer storage media;
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- at least one scanner device configured to read at least one code of the plurality of computer-readable codes and transfer code-specific information of the at least one code to the at least one processor;
- wherein the at least one code is carried by a surface of the at least one panel product, the surface and/or said code being concealed at least after installation of the at least one panel product for making the floor covering;
- wherein the at least one processor, the at least one computer storage media, and the at least one scanner device are communicatively coupled by a network to transfer the computer-traceable data;
- wherein, in response to the at least one code being read by the at least one scanner device, the processor compares the code-specific information to the digital data stored on the at least one computer storage media to verify authenticity of the at least one code;
- wherein the link to the digital data provides access to information of one or more physical parameters of the at least one panel product to verify authenticity of the at least one panel product.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.