Patents by Inventor Howard Kamentsky

Howard Kamentsky 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).

  • Patent number: 6168157
    Abstract: A toy includes a housing with pressure sensitive sensors on each face of the housing. The toy instructs players as to which parts of their body they should use in pressing one or more of the sensors on the toy. A number of games can be played with the toy. Players can pass the toy from one player to another using the body parts the toy calls out and try to set records for the number of passes possible without mistake, or can try to set records for the number of passes that can be made within a two minute time period. A third game involves three or four players trying to cover five or six of the sensors in accordance with the toy's instructions. The players maneuver their bodies to maintain pressure on the sensors being held while pressing holding a new sensor called out by the toy. The voice used in the toy also tries to challenge the players to improve on their previous scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2001
    Assignee: Hasbro, Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph A. Beckman, Howard Kamentsky, Henry D. Sharpe, III, Kipp L. Bradford, Stephen A. Schwartz, John F. Murphy, III
  • Patent number: 5540439
    Abstract: A game apparatus includes a game board surrounded by a fence, a plurality of pawns which are advanceable along the fence and an action character figure which is moveable on the game board. The action character figure is adapted to randomly move about on the game board surface, and each of the pawns includes an ejectable component which is ejected when the pawn is engaged by the action character figure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignees: Howard Kamentsky Design, Stephen Schwartz Design
    Inventor: Howard Kamentsky
  • Patent number: 5366221
    Abstract: A random play indicator includes a base portion having a light station thereon, a light source in the base portion for illuminating the light station, a manually rotatable randomizer wheel including a plurality of different colored light segments, and a diffuser dome. The randomizer wheel is rotatably mounted on the base portion so that sequential different colored segments thereof sequentially pass over-the light station as the randomizer wheel is rotated, and the diffuser dome is mounted on the base portion over the randomizer wheel for diffusing light passing through the segment of the randomizer wheel aligned with the light station at any given time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1994
    Assignees: Stephen Schwartz, Howard Kamentsky
    Inventors: Stephen Schwartz, Howard Kamentsky, Michael Gorker