Patents by Inventor Wing Ngan

Wing Ngan 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: 20070060248
    Abstract: Gaming devices and methods of operating gaming devices are provided. In an embodiment, a single activation of a gaming device can cause a series of outcomes including a symbol cascading effect upon the occurrence of sequential triggering events. In an embodiment, the triggering event occurs when a predetermined combination of symbols is generated and displayed in associated symbol positions, and a designated symbol is generated and displayed in at least one symbol position. If the triggering event occurs, the outcome can include fixing or locking the designated symbol in the symbol position and replacing each of the symbols in the combination of symbols with a generated symbol. Awards are provided for each winning combination, and an incremented modifier is applied to the awards for the occurrence of at least one triggering event. The likelihood that the triggering event will occur increases with each designated symbol fixed in a symbol position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2005
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Inventors: Paulina Rodgers, Wing Ngan
  • Publication number: 20050059456
    Abstract: A gaming device include a game having a plurality of selection groups and a final jackpot award. The game provides the player with a number of picks with which the player uses to attempt to pick selections in the groups. The number of picks in one preferred embodiment is not enough to allow the player to pick once from every group. The game requires that one advance symbol must yield another advance symbol for the player to reach a jackpot award. That is, the player has to pick an advance symbol from a first group that yields automatically an advance symbol from a second group. The player then advances through the second group without consuming a second pick to a third group or to the jackpot award.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2003
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Inventors: Randall Mead, Wing Ngan
  • Publication number: 20050054416
    Abstract: A gaming device with a selection game that enables a player to pick one of a plurality of selections. An award, terminator or modifier associated with the picked selection is revealed to the player. If the picked selection is associated with a terminator, the selection game ends. If the picked selection is associated with an award or value, the revealed award or value is modified by each activated modifier to form at least one modified award. The modified award is then provided to the player. If the picked selection is associated with a modifier, then the revealed modifier is activated. Once activated, the modifier will modify each of the awards that are subsequently revealed during the selection game. Moreover, once a modifier is activated, the gaming device retroactively applies the activated modifier to each of the previously revealed awards or values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Publication date: March 10, 2005
    Inventors: John Hostetler, Randall Mead, Wing Ngan
  • Patent number: 6499589
    Abstract: A display stand comprising a body formed by two shells and a platform plate for supporting to display an article. The plate has opposite sides, and the shells are pivotably connected to the plate. Each shell includes a pair of opposed walls to define an open hollow structure which embraces a respective opposite side of the plate and has a pair of first and second adjoining open flat sides extending at substantially 90° to each other. The shells are pivotable between a first position in which their first open sides are closed by the plate and a second position in which their second open sides are closed by the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: May Cheong Toy Products Factory Limited
    Inventor: Roger Chi-Wing Ngan
  • Patent number: 6371828
    Abstract: A hand-driven toy (100) for playing by hand (10) of a player, which toy comprises a body (110), front and rear wheels (120 & 130), and a steering member (140) for steering the front wheel (120). The toy (100) includes a pair of finger connectors (150) attachable to the steering member (140) for enabling the index and middle fingers (12 & 13) of the hand (10) to maneuver the steering member (140). Each connector (150) resembles a gauntlet (150) having a fist (152) for gripping a respective opposite part (142) of the steering member (140) and a cuff (156) for frictional engagement by a respective finger (12/13) such that the toy (100) may be held and driven by the hand (10) to move on a surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: May Cheong Toy Products Fty. Ltd.
    Inventor: Chi-Wing Ngan
  • Patent number: D465107
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: May Cheong Toy Products Factory Limited
    Inventor: Roger Chi-Wing Ngan
  • Patent number: D391257
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1998
    Assignee: Southa Company Limited
    Inventor: Hon Wing Ngan