US Patent Issued to Hallmark Cards on March 3 for "Greeting card with rotatable pop-up assembly" (Missouri, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,056, issued on March 3, was assigned to Hallmark Cards Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.).

"Greeting card with rotatable pop-up assembly" was invented by Angela Claire Ensminger (Kansas City, Mo.), Laura Ann Haverkamp (Kansas City, Mo.) and Melissa Comba (Tonganoxie, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decorative item including a base, a motor mounted to the base, and a pop-up assembly coupled to the motor. The motor is operable to rotate the pop-up assembly with respect to the base. The pop-up assembly is movable between a collapsed position, in which the pop-up assembly is generally two-dimensional, and an expanded position, in which at lea...