ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,903, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAND CASTLE SCIENCE LLC (Winter Park, Fla.).
"Equipment, method and kit for manual forming of transient material into a structure" was invented by Javier Colayco (Reunion, Fla.), Thuy Colayco (Reunion, Fla.) and Valentina Colayco (Reunion, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Equipment for building sand castles can include a body having a single, monolithic, hollow structure with a vertical axis and a sidewall that is continuous and uninterrupted in a rotational direction about the vertical axis. The sidewall can include an inner pattern that is castle-like in appearance. The inner pattern can for...