ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,642, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to MATTEL INC. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Toy track assembly" was invented by Matthew Licea Polo (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Benjamin Donaldson Reading (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Binh Tieu Phun (El Segundo, Calif.), Jorge Alejandro Lugo Gutierrez (Long Beach, Calif.), Tyler Kenney (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), Christopher R. Colangelo (Van Nuys, Calif.), Simon Poirier-Malo (Los Angeles), Daniel Tam (Shen Zhen, China), Hong Wang (Kowloon, Hong Kong), Tom Chen (Shenzhen City, China), Jie Bai (Shenzhen City, China) and Weizhi Zeng (Shenzhen City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A track of a toy track assembly...