ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,644, issued on April 21.

"Magnetic playing card building toy" was invented by Shari Eskenas (Simi Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic playing card includes a substrate disposed between a playing-card front face and a playing-card back face. The substrate includes edge magnet groups disposed at edges of the substrate and interior magnet groups disposed at an interior of the substrate, wherein each magnet group is defined by a pair of apertures holding composite magnets. Each composite magnet comprises first and second sub-magnets fixed together in opposite polar directions. For edge magnet groups, the sub-magnets...