ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,642, issued on April 21, was assigned to MATTEL INC. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Toy vehicle track" was invented by Maxence Rodrigue Bilodeau (Marina Del Ray, Calif.), Giang-Son Quoc Nguyen (Buena Park, Calif.), Alex Au (Kowloon, Hong Kong), Gabriel De La Torre (Los Angeles), David Welby (Santa Monica, Calif.), Jung Jun Hwang (Inglewood, Calif.), Paul Schmid (Ojai, Calif.), Gabriel Lopez (Los Angeles) and Jeremy Fischer (Long beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toy vehicle track piece of present application includes one or more connectors. Thus, two track pieces can be connected directly to each other without any additional pi...