Patents by Inventor Vincent Robert Earnest

Vincent Robert Earnest 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: 20140178842
    Abstract: An entertainment and educational board game is disclosed which requires players to answer questions from the concepts of the ASME Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD & T) standards, and includes a playing board, a square shaped playing course on the playing board and formed from a plurality of joined spaces, a plurality of sets of question cards with each set representing a particular ASME GD & T question category, a plurality of GD & T color coded symbol question cards with categories from the ASME GD & T standards. The players take turns in their attempts to correctly answer the questions printed on the back of the color coded symbol question cards. The particular question card selected by each player as a result of his or her playing piece landing on a respective playing space corresponding to the ASME GD & T symbol question category for that question card symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventor: VINCENT ROBERT EARNEST
  • Publication number: 20090114554
    Abstract: A drinking mug with detachable speakers and audio player docking station including: a mug adapted to retain and dispense liquids disposed therein, and further adapted to removably retain thereupon each of at least one speaker housing, a portable audio player dock, a base, and a lid; at least one speaker adapted to provide sound in response to signals received thereby; at least one speaker housing adapted to receive and retain at least one speaker in secure mechanical engagement therein; a portable audio player dock adapted to receive and retain a portable audio player thereupon in secure removable mechanical engagement; a mug base adapted to be selectively coupled or decoupled from the mug and including at least one compartment; and a lid adapted to be placed in secure removable mechanical engagement with the mug, whereby the lid operates to retain a liquid disposed within the mug.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventor: Vincent Robert Earnest