US Patent Issued to EPOCH on Aug. 4 for "Toy for figure play" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,557, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to EPOCH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Toy for figure play" was invented by Kei Kamiyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toy for figure play includes: a base member, a spherical concave portion, a rotary plate, and a storage box, the spherical concave portion has a circular opening and a concave hemispherical surface corresponding to a radius of the circular opening. The spherical concave portion is provided on the base member. The rotary plate is rotatably provided in the circular opening of the spherical concave portion. The rotary plate is formed in a circular plate shape with a diameter substan...