Patents Assigned to Bonus Games
  • Patent number: 5011157
    Abstract: An electronic alpha-numeric digit displaying device, together with a control unit and electronic circuitry appropriate to the encoding, sending, receiving, decoding, and displaying of data as used in various games, such as Bingo, Keno, or the like, in which a plurality of players may participate. In the exemplary game of Bingo, for instance, light-weight plastic balls, each marked with a letter and a number, are randomly selected and deposited into apertures in a console, by which action they are automatically identified through the breaking of one row and one column infra-red light beam of a coordinate grid of such beams. Through electronic encoding, transmitting/receiving, and decoding, the aforesaid letter-number combination is substantially instantaneously displayed in two places on a display board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1991
    Assignee: Bonus Games
    Inventors: John G. Lovell, Sr., Garry W. Owens