ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,316, issued on July 7, was assigned to Original Engineering LLC (Reno, Nev.).

"Construction system" was invented by Maximilian Bielenberg (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A construction system has rods and connectors that may be assembled and disassembled in order to be re-used to construct a variety of geometric figures and other figures. Each connector has a plurality of sockets configured to form joints with the rods. Each socket has a cavity where the cavity has aligned openings. The socket at one of the openings forms an interference fit with an inserted rod."

The patent was filed on Dec. 29, 2023, under Application No...