US Patent Issued to SPIN MASTER on July 21 for "Device with flapping display" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,945, issued on July 21, was assigned to SPIN MASTER LTD. (Ontario, Canada).

"Device with flapping display" was invented by Amir Haddadi (Richmond Hill, Canada), Benjamin Elias Dermer (Toronto), Paul Andrew Reynolds (Toronto), Amrit Dhoot (Toronto) and Martin Labrecque (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toy includes a magnetically responsive member, a fulcrum member, a printed circuit board (PCB), a lid covering the PCB, an activation switch, a touch sensor, a motion sensor, an audio transducer, a signal generator and a controller. The flexible PCB includes an electromagnetic coil, and a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs...