ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,646, issued on July 28.
"Shoe decoration kit" was invented by James Greene (Glendale, Ariz.) and Colby Greene (Glendale, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shoe decoration kit includes a plurality of mini-bricks and a plurality of mini-brick accessories. Each of the mini-bricks includes a plurality of projections and a receptacle portion designed to detachably couple the mini-bricks with other mini-bricks and mini-brick accessories. The mini-brick block includes a block passage that has a pair of apertures in a perimeter block wall designed for insertion of a shoelace into and through the mini-brick block parallel to a top block ...