ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 13 -- AFI Licensing, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,072,427, initially filed Aug. 12, 2014) developed by W. Steven Smith, Cornelius, North Carolina, for an "abrading device and method of abrading a floor structure utilizing the same."

The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=1,00,72,427.PN.&OS=PN/1,00,72 . . .