ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,651, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to EPR Excavate LLC (Kansas City, Mo.).
"Amusement activity station" was invented by Ilya Girlya (West Berlin, N.J.) and Yan Girlya (West Berlin, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An amusement activity station enables a user participant to operate complex machinery to direct a primary striker object into contact with at least one secondary target object to promote complex machinery-based, object-to-object contact skills. The amusement activity station includes a complex machine component and a secondary object contact station. The complex machine includes a user position station, a user-to-machi...