ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,643, issued on March 18, was assigned to LEGO A/S (Billund, Denmark).

"Interactive music play system" was invented by Morgan James Walker (Billund, Denmark) and Henrik Munk Storm (Billund, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interactive music play system, comprising a plurality of toy elements, an image capturing device, a processing unit and a music rendering device; wherein the image capturing device is configured to capture one or more images of a user-selected subset of said toy elements arranged in a field of view of the image capturing device; wherein the processing unit is configured to: recognise the user-selected subs...