ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,826, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SPIN MASTER LTD. (Toronto).

"Kit of parts including elastic ring-based ornament making device, elastic ring, and plurality of ornamental members" was invented by Mollie B. Jameson (Toronto), Graham D. Browning (Toronto), Emma Peat (Toronto), Matthew Lentini (Toronto) and Seiji Murakami (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, there is provided an elastic ring-based ornament making device for constructing an elastic ring-based ornament that includes at least one elastic ring and a plurality of ornamental members positioned thereon. The elastic ring-based ornament making devi...