Patents by Inventor Richard H. Recard

Richard H. Recard 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: 20030027611
    Abstract: Three interrelated games, sharing elements of their spacecraft navigation components consisting of game boards, game markers, and rules articulating spacecraft game marker movement to game board polygons and figures; wherein one game simulates a stellar civilization's economic development subsumed by a universal moral or karmic dynamic analogous to natural law, generating a synergy between each player's advancement of their own economic interests and their sacrifices for the advancements of other players, using a non-tessellating game board and incorporating a population homeostasis mechanism; and wherein the remaining two games are more fundamentally interrelated by their simulations of sports-like competition—one using a tessellating and the other a non-tessellating game board—between fleets of spacecraft which attempt to remove each other from play using laser registers upon hull photo-receptor targets while concurrently attempting to circumnavigate a star to gain points which are exchanged for
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventor: Richard H. Recard
  • Patent number: 5906372
    Abstract: A tessellating board game which combined with game rules simulates the economic development of single or multiple star planetary systems in which choices made by competing parties influencing each other's economic prospects have ramifications modeled by a subsuming moral dynamic, affecting player destiny as moral or karmic law analogous to natural law. Also simulated is a complex gravitational field of a star and its planets, either for a single star in the unistellar game version or for multiple stars in the multistellar game version, and players must plot spacecraft trajectories within those gravitational fields, adjusting spacecraft speed and direction using planetary encounters and fuel decrement, and, in the multistellar game, using hyperspace jump locations to transcend the constraint of distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Inventor: Richard H. Recard, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4157184
    Abstract: A game apparatus designed for use by two to four players and including a board essentially divided into hexagonal shaped cells and further including six pentagonal shaped cells as well as a symbol representing a star. The board is used in conjunction with game pieces or markers representing space stations, spacecraft of several different classes and planets revolving about the star. The players take turns moving their spacecraft pieces subject to specific variable constraints with regard to the simulated spacecraft velocity and direction. The markers representing the planets are moved with every turn of each player. If a player's spacecraft is moved to a cell adjacent to another player's spacecraft, one of the spacecraft is eliminated dependent upon the classes of the respective spacecraft and the roll of dice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1979
    Inventor: Richard H. Recard, Jr.
  • Patent number: D250053
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1978
    Inventor: Richard H. Recard, Jr.
  • Patent number: D252049
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1979
    Inventor: Richard H. Recard, Jr.