US Patent Issued to EPOCH on Oct. 20 for "Model toy and cooking toy" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,430, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to EPOCH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Model toy and cooking toy" was invented by Kei Kamiyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A model toy includes: a placement table provided in a main body and having a main body-side through hole; a tray having a tray-side through hole and placed on the placement table such that the tray-side through hole overlaps the main body-side through hole in a vertical direction; a rotation shaft provided below the placement table; a conversion part configured to convert a rotational motion of the rotation shaft into a reciprocating motion in the vertical direction; and a ...