US Patent Issued to LEGO on May 19 for "Modular toy system with arc toy building element" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,606, issued on May 19, was assigned to LEGO A/S (Billund, Denmark).

"Modular toy system with arc toy building element" was invented by Steffen Duus (Billund, Denmark), Christopher Carver (Billund, Denmark) and Majbritt Janot Nielsen (Billund, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular toy system comprising toy building elements including an arc toy building element. The arc toy building element has at least one knob receiving opening formed in a bottom surface or at least one knob formed in a top surface configured for coupling to complimentary coupling elements of another toy building element in a first direction. The arc toy b...