ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,341, issued on March 17, was assigned to SPIN MASTER LTD. (Toronto).
"Transformable toy" was invented by Michael Lee (Torrance, Calif.), Evan Miller (Los Angeles), Jaedon Tseng (Los Angeles), Fujio Nobata (Tokyo) and Michitoshi Sugimoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transformable toy kit for use on a support surface is provided. The transformable toy kit includes a transformable toy which has a movable housing element that moves between retracted and expanded positions when a catch and a latch of the transformable toy are secured and released by an actuator of the transformable toy, respectively. The transformable toy furt...