ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,196, issued on Aug. 12.
"Collapsible artistic sculpture and method of making the same" was invented by Wen Jennifer Ma (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of making an extensible sculpture including providing a plurality of flexible material sheets; cutting each of the plurality of flexible material sheets to form a plurality of at least three sculptural pieces; arranging the sculptural pieces in a predetermined order; defining a first set of connection columns on the top face of the first sculptural piece; using a first connector to fixedly connect the bottom face of the second sculptural piece to the top ...