ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,930, issued on Dec. 16.

"Flat pack fire pit" was invented by Zamir Kaye (Ein-Habsor, Israel) and Oren Atia (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flat pack fire pit with six planar walls, each planar wall is trapezoidal in shape and each wall is vertically oriented with a widest side at the top and a smallest side at the bottom, where each wall interconnects with an adjacent wall to form a hexagonal structure, and each wall has a vertically oriented leg slot towards the bottom, including a hexagonal bottom plate that rests in horizontal orientation inside the hexagonal structure near the bottom; and six legs, each leg h...