The object
Gaute Munch is a named inventor on LEGO toy-building-system patents for controllable electronic function bricks that combine energy, sensors and control circuitry with physical construction elements. The devices extend familiar bricks into programmable electronic play, while a 2024 EPO workshop report records Munch’s continuing public innovation activity.
What Gaute did
co-invented LEGO toy-building systems that use controllable electronic function bricks, energy, sensor input and control circuitry
Why it matters
Electronic function bricks brought controllable sensing and actuation into the LEGO construction-toy ecosystem, widening the system’s technical play possibilities.
Living-status check
An EPO report records Munch leading a hands-on innovation workshop in Madrid in November 2024.