ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,234, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to JAST Gifts Shenzhen Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen City, China).

"3D pop-up cards with a base structure" was invented by Jen-Lin Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention refers to a 3D card comprising a foldable base card (1) having an inner side and an outer side, said base card (1) comprising two sections (2, 3) reversibly transferable along a fold (17) from a folded closed state to an unfolded opened state, and a foldable base structure (6, 6') reversibly transferable from a flat compressed state to a three-dimensional expanded state, and with a foldable figure (10) reversibl...