US Patent Issued to TONIES on Sept. 8 for "Toy for playing back music or a spoken story" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,364, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TONIES GMBH (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Toy for playing back music or a spoken story" was invented by Patric Fassbender (Dusseldorf, Germany), Marcus Stahl (Dusseldorf, Germany), Christian Wilmanns (Kaarst, Germany), Sven Vaders (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Roman Salomon (Ratingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a toy for playing back music or a spoken story with a loudspeaker and/or a loudspeaker connection, a first sensor which can detect, within an area of its environment, a property or a change in a property of this environment, wherein the first sensor is a reader...