ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,519, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connection structure, decoration method, and connection structure body set" was invented by Yuki Kotani (Osaka, Japan), Shozo Oshio (Osaka, Japan), Masahiro Nakamura (Tokyo) and Tetsushi Konda (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection structure includes: a first structure body and a second structure body which is detachably connected to the first structure body. The first structure body includes a first fitting portion, and the second structure body includes a second fitting portion which is detachably fitted wit...