ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,686, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to KOMPAN A/S (Odense SO, Denmark).

"Play structure with a mesh panel" was invented by Peter Christian Lovfold Gronfeldt (Odense SO, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A play structure for children, including two vertically arranged pillars and a first vertically arranged panel element connected between the two pillars, said two vertically arranged pillars each being longer than 2 m and said first vertically arranged panel element being arranged such that its upper edge is located higher than 2 m from the bottom of the two vertically arranged pillars. The first vertically arranged panel elemen...