ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,822, issued on May 6, was assigned to Terreform ONE (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

"Curb power source" was invented by Vivian Kuan (New York), Mitchell Joachim (New York) and Axel Kilian (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a curb for providing electricity to one or more devices on a street or a sidewalk. The curb includes a rigid curb housing for storing at least one power source or power source connector configured to be electrically coupled to a power source. The curb additionally includes a top plate removably attached to the rigid curb housing, the top plate configured to electrically couple ...