Patents by Inventor Alan P. Roach

Alan P. Roach has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20030040347
    Abstract: Wireless interactive gaming system where users can engage in a solo play mode to collect components to build warriors. The user uses the collected components to build a warrior that can be used to attack other game units. Communication can occur with or without handshaking. Warriors are created from a head, body, and tail with varying abilities and with a pre-programmed attack sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2001
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Inventors: Alan P. Roach, Peter M. Kullgren, Daniel Sanfilippo, Darrell Merino, A. Franklin La Barbara, Mark Wiesenhahn, Georgina M. Melone
  • Patent number: 6248017
    Abstract: An electronic game includes a housing shaped like a fighter ship, a display mounted on the housing, an input device mounted within the housing, and a processor connected to control the display and receive input from the input device. The display is rotatable relative to the housing. The processor is programmed to cause the display to display an element representing the fighter ship that remains stationary relative to the housing when a player rotates the display relative to the housing. The processor causes the display to display a play zone that includes the stationary element and one or more zone elements, the zone elements rotating as the player rotates the display. The zone elements include objects that move toward a perimeter of the play zone, fired objects. The fired objects may emanate from the perimeter-moving objects—these fired objects move toward the play zone perimeter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: Hasbro, INC
    Inventor: Alan P. Roach