ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,434, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOMY COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).
"Spinning top toy" was invented by Hiroyuki Hama (Tokyo), Yohei Bando (Chiba, Japan), Takeaki Maeda (Tokyo) and Douglas Arthur Schultheis (Cumberland, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A top toy includes a shaft part, a trunk part, and a top tip cover. The trunk part is detachably configured on the shaft part. The top tip cover is detachably configured on the shaft part at a longitudinal end. The shaft part includes a first engagement part being movably configured between a raised position and a lowered position in an axial direction and a second engagement part. ...