Patents by Inventor Mark E. Perry

Mark E. Perry 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: 4506893
    Abstract: A board game having a squarely configured playing board is subdivided into eight (8) rows and eight (8) columns of uniformly dimensioned squares. Each square is provided with a numeral so that the squares appear to be randomly numbered although the pattern of such numbering system corresponds to the Table of Numbers from the Book of Change (I Ching), an ancient Chinese manuscript. The playing pieces are coded so that each playing piece has a top half and a bottom half. In playing the game, jumping an opponent's piece results in inversion of the jumped piece and such inverted piece may regain its original, upright position by jumping an opponent's piece. However, an inverted piece must be removed from the board if it is jumped a second time. The game is won by either capturing, by jumping, all of one's opponent's pieces, or by successfully arranging three of one's own pieces in contiguous, linearly aligned relation to one another on an opponent's back row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1985
    Inventor: Mark E. Perry