ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,535, issued on May 13.

"Sequin system and method" was invented by Martin F Friedberg (Rosemont, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ornamental sequin system including a selected visual adaptation provided in a visual plane of at least one sequin to form an ornamental sequin system surface of interlaced colors or images is set forth."

The patent was filed on Aug. 23, 2014, under Application No. 16/350,387.

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