ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,517, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUBS AG (Kusnacht, Switzerland).
"Interactive toy-set for playing digital media" was invented by Hayri C. Bulman (Kusnacht, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interactive toy-set and related method for playing digital media, in particular auditorily recounting a story, includes a housing (10) adapted to receive one or more placeable tokens (7). The placeable tokens each have a unique identifier incorporated and the toy-set further includes a sensing unit (11) for detecting a presence of the one or more placeable tokens (7). A control unit is adapted to select a track and a track inde...