ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,509, issued on April 7, was assigned to Farco ToyCo LLC (Wantagh, N.Y.).
"Interconnecting methods and systems for posable bendable building block toys" was invented by Joseph Farco (Massapequa Park, N.Y.) and Daniele Benedettelli (Grossetto, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary toy construction may comprise a posable building block whereby a portion of the posable building block is coupled by a clutch having at least one opening with a first central axis, and a lock having at least one opening with a second central axis, and the first central axis and the second central axis may not be colinear. The exemplary toy constru...