ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,861, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Hallmark Cards Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.).
"Gifting apparatus and system" was invented by Johnathan David McNett (Kansas City, Mo.), Gary Thomas Pratt (Lawrence, Kan.), Kevin Weldon Swanson (Kansas City, Mo.), Orlanda Dominic Lacy (Kansas City, Mo.) and Dennis Allan Evans (Oak Grove, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-reactive gifting system includes, in one embodiment, an illumination device adapted to emit UV light, an ornamental attachment attached to or that forms at least a portion of the flat top of the illumination device, paper that includes a first light-reactive component that re...