ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,316, issued on May 19.
"Wire-frame and fiberglass holiday motif" was invented by Mathias Fenger (Angeles City, Philippines).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wire-frame and fiberglass holiday motif has multiple pinpoint lights secured and arranged on a wire frame so as to convey a three-dimensional form of the holiday motif. In addition, one or more molded fiberglass portions have been secured to the wire frame and present an outer surface corresponding to an expressive feature of the holiday motif, such as a face. The thickness of the fiberglass has been selected such that it becomes translucent when illuminated by a subset of the pinp...