Patents by Inventor Gerard Duhamel

Gerard Duhamel 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: 20060287044
    Abstract: It is provided a method, apparatus and computer program, to play a game of chance involving player selection, comprising providing a first partial outcome and at least two second partial outcomes. A player selection of at least one, but not all, of the second partial outcomes is received and the first partial outcome and the selected second partial outcome(s) are combined to form a game outcome. The game outcome is evaluated according to game rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2006
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Inventor: Gerard Duhamel
  • Publication number: 20050202864
    Abstract: A game method requiring skill from the players and involves a display on a gaming terminal screen of the game that comprises a model image representation and a game board wherein a plurality of moving objects are displayed. The objects comprise portions of said model image and at least one portion of an alien image. To play, the player selects at least one object. Upon selection, the gaming terminal identifies each object as from the model image or from an alien image. If one selected object is a portion of an alien image, the game ends. However, if all the selected objects are portions of the model image, these objects are removed from the group of moving objects on the game board. When all objects that are portions of the model image have been selected, the play is determined a win.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Publication date: September 15, 2005
    Inventors: Gerard Duhamel, Martin Roy
  • Patent number: 4483173
    Abstract: Process and device for the automatic regulation of the push rods of a press by means of a self-locking rod jack. The device comprises a table, a matrix, a blank holder, a main slide, a punch and a blank holder slide. Each of the push rods comprises a jack rod mounted on the blank holder slide. The jack is equipped with an automatically lockable and unlockable device for regulating the length by sensing. At their lower end, in each case the rods have means for the high-speed locking to the blank holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1984
    Assignee: Societe Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale
    Inventor: Gerard Duhamel