Patent for Lego Bricks

Date: January 28, 1958 • Location: Billund, Denmark

The Lego Group, a Danish toy company, filed a patent in Denmark for the design of Lego bricks.

Lego A/S, also known as the Lego Group, is a Danish construction toy manufacturer and media company based in Billund. It manufactures Lego-branded toys, consisting mostly of interlocking acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plastic and rubber bricks. The Lego Group has also built several amusement parks around the world, each known as Legoland, and operates numerous retail stores.