Patents by Inventor Mary Anne Hanley

Mary Anne Hanley 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: 5002282
    Abstract: A method of playing a game where players verbally describe relationships between randomly chosen concepts. Each player is randomly given a set of markers representing a wide range of characteristics or facts of nature. Each player places a marker on any space in the playing lattice of the playing board. The first player picks a card which has a statement of physical, mental, physiological, spiritual or emotional characteristics of human beings and natural phenomena. Then that player must use the statment to describe the relation between the first player's placed marker and any other marker on the playing lattice which are inner-connected to the first player's placed marker. An inner-connection being defined as similarly colored lattice spaces connected by similarly colored lines running through the middle portion of the lattice. The other players vote on whether they find the described relationship acceptable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1991
    Inventor: Mary Anne Hanley
  • Patent number: 4846479
    Abstract: A board game including a playing board, a plurality of markers and a plurality of cards. The board playing surface has a plurality of spaces forming a playing lattice along the perimeter portion of the board. Each space is colored by one of a plurality of various colors. A group of lines runs through the middle portion of the playing lattice and each line is also colored by one of the plurality of various colors. The lines make connections between the spaces. The markers indicate by symbols, characteristics or facts of nature and the cards have statements of physical, mental, philosophical, spiritual or emotional characteristics of human beings and natural phenomena. According to the rules, a player places markers on the spaces, selects a card, reads the statement and uses the statement to describe a relation between two or more placed markers. The markers used in the relationship can only be markers placed on similarly colored spaces wherein these spaces are connected by similarly colored lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1989
    Inventor: Mary Anne Hanley