ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,272, issued on July 7, was assigned to EPOCH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).
"Transformable toy and building toy" was invented by Kei Kamiyama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transformable toy includes: a floor portion and a ceiling portion which define a first room therebetween; and a roof unit. The roof unit includes at least one leg portion extendable to downwardly protrude from the roof unit and retractable inside the roof unit. The transformable toy is transformable between a first form and a second form, the first form in which the roof unit is disposed on the ceiling portion in a state in which the at least one leg portion is ret...