ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,834, issued on April 14, was assigned to GAMEGENIC GMBH (Essen, Germany).
"Game box element forming the lid of a game box or game board, associated game box" was invented by Alberto Adrian Alonso Perez (Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a game element (1a), preferably of a board game box (B1, B2, B3) comprising: -a central portion (10a) comprising four sides (11a, 12a, 13a, 14a); -side portions (15a, 16a, 17a, 18a) each connected to one side (11a, 12a, 13a, 14a) of the central portion (10) so that the side portions (15a, 16a, 17a, 18a) can be moved from a first position (P0) to...