Patents Assigned to Magically, Inc.
  • Patent number: 12251647
    Abstract: A cap, a magic kit, and methods for performing a magic trick are described. The cap can include a circular top end having an interior surface and an exterior surface, a side wall extending radially from the circular top end, an open bottom end, a thread on a side wall interior surface, a groove proximal the interior surface of the circular top end and a portion of the side wall, and a marker. The cap may be used to perform a magic trick where the groove retains a coin in the cap when the cap is flipped over.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Penguin Magic, Inc.
    Inventor: Seth Race
  • Patent number: 12004599
    Abstract: A magic kit and methods of use thereof are described. The magic kit may include three pairs of shoelaces, each shoelace in each pair having a magnetic end and an aglet end, and at least one shoelace having two aglet ends. The magic kit may be used to perform a magic trick where the shoelaces are removably coupled and uncoupled from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Penguin Magic, Inc.
    Inventor: Donnovan Lane Mount
  • Patent number: 11904255
    Abstract: A magic trick apparatus and methods of use is described. The magic trick apparatus may include a half sphere having a rounded side and a flat surface with a coin attached to the flat surface of the half sphere. The magic trick apparatus may further include a band and a ridge on the rounded side and a hole extending into the half sphere. The magic trick apparatus may be used to “transform” a coin into a lollipop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Penguin Magic, Inc.
    Inventor: Rizki Nanda
  • Patent number: 11898896
    Abstract: A scale apparatus is described. The scale apparatus may include a housing sized to fit within a playing card tuck box; a pressure plate operable to measure a weight of a plurality of objects; a wireless transmitter; and a microcontroller in communication with the pressure plate and the wireless transmitter. The microcontroller may be configured to: continuously measure the weight on the pressure plate; when the weight holds steady for a sequence of measurements, transmit a first weight measurement via the wireless transmitter; measure a change in the weight; and when the change in the weight is steady, transmit a second weight measurement via the wireless transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Penguin Magic, Inc.
    Inventor: Acar Altinsel
  • Patent number: 11899843
    Abstract: An indirect haptic device includes a substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface, and a plurality of haptic electrodes and a plurality of island electrodes arranged on the top surface. The device further includes a plurality of transmit electrodes and a plurality of receive electrodes arranged on the bottom surface, a position sensor, and a friction modulator. The device further includes a control device configured to apply bipolar electrical signals to the plurality of transmit electrodes to detect touch locations of a user's appendage and to modulate the friction between the user's appendage and the touch surface. Each of the plurality of haptic electrodes are substantially aligned with and capacitively coupled to a corresponding two of the plurality of transmit electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Tanvas Magic Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Colgate, Mondher Cherif, David J. Meyer, Craig Shultz
  • Patent number: 11896890
    Abstract: A two-card sleeve apparatus is described. The two-card sleeve apparatus may include a first transparent layer, an opaque layer, and a second transparent layer. The two-card sleeve apparatus may be used to safely store or display two or more trading cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Penguin Magic, Inc.
    Inventor: Acar Altinsel
  • Patent number: 11850534
    Abstract: A magic kit and methods of use thereof are described. The magic kit may include a first handheld object and a second handheld object that appear to be identical but have different weights. The magic kit may be used to perform a magic trick where the second handheld object appears to levitate using an elastic band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Penguin Magic, Inc.
    Inventor: Acar Altinsel
  • Patent number: 11788878
    Abstract: A scale apparatus is described. The scale apparatus may include a housing sized to fit within a playing card tuck box; a pressure plate operable to measure a weight of a plurality of objects; a wireless transmitter; and a microcontroller in communication with the pressure plate and the wireless transmitter. The microcontroller may be configured to: continuously measure the weight on the pressure plate; when the weight holds steady for a sequence of measurements, transmit a first weight measurement via the wireless transmitter; measure a change in the weight; and when the change in the weight is steady, transmit a second weight measurement via the wireless transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Penguin Magic, Inc.
    Inventor: Acar Altinsel
  • Publication number: 20230314205
    Abstract: A scale apparatus is described. The scale apparatus may include a housing sized to fit within a playing card tuck box; a pressure plate operable to measure a weight of a plurality of objects; a wireless transmitter; and a microcontroller in communication with the pressure plate and the wireless transmitter. The microcontroller may be configured to: continuously measure the weight on the pressure plate; when the weight holds steady for a sequence of measurements, transmit a first weight measurement via the wireless transmitter; measure a change in the weight; and when the change in the weight is steady, transmit a second weight measurement via the wireless transmitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Penguin Magic, Inc.
    Inventor: Acar Altinsel
  • Patent number: 11752445
    Abstract: A magic kit and methods of use thereof is described. The magic kit may have a set of cards, each card comprising a plurality of holes and an order marker. The plurality of holes on each card are arranged in a different order. When the set of cards are stacked on top of each other in a specific order, using the order markers as guides, only some of the holes of all the cards in the set align to form a pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Penguin Magic, Inc.
    Inventor: Kyle Purnell
  • Patent number: 11726569
    Abstract: A haptic interface unit may include an application in the operating system of a device in communication with a driver layer. A plurality of sensors and actuators may be in communication with the driver layer. The driver layer analyzes information from the sensors to generate an output signal based on an interaction model stored in the driver layer. The application updates the interaction model in the driver layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Tanvas Magic Inc.
    Inventor: David J. Meyer
  • Patent number: 11448545
    Abstract: A scale apparatus is described. The scale apparatus may include a housing sized to fit within a playing card tuck box; a pressure plate operable to measure a weight of a plurality of objects; a wireless transmitter; and a microcontroller in communication with the pressure plate and the wireless transmitter. The microcontroller may be configured to: continuously measure the weight on the pressure plate; when the weight holds steady for a sequence of measurements, transmit a first weight measurement via the wireless transmitter; measure a change in the weight; and when the change in the weight is steady, transmit a second weight measurement via the wireless transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: PENGUIN MAGIC, INC.
    Inventor: Acar Altinsel
  • Patent number: 11376488
    Abstract: A two-card sleeve apparatus is described. The two-card sleeve apparatus may include a first transparent layer, an opaque layer, and a second transparent layer. The two-card sleeve apparatus may be used to safely store or display two or more trading cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: PENGUIN MAGIC, INC.
    Inventor: Acar Altinsel
  • Patent number: 11148315
    Abstract: A system and method for aligning and installing graphical dies onto an embossing press or foil stamping press is provided. The system includes a number of die support panels having a number of threaded openings disposed in columns and rows in a grid like fashion and identified with x and y axis indicia. The system also includes a number of dies with a number of apertures each identified with a pair of x and y axis indicia. Fasteners and indicia are used to align and attach the dies to the die support panels in a predetermined position. The system preferable further comprises one or more adjusters used to make minute positioning adjustments to the die after it is installed on the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: METAL MAGIC, INC.
    Inventors: Charles Brown, Cy R. Brown
  • Patent number: 11013954
    Abstract: An exercise machine to facilitate a leg extension exercise by a user. A rigid frame supports a pair of spaced-apart guide rails. A foot plate assembly is adapted to move along the guide rails and includes a foot support surface at a selected angle to support a sole of a foot of the user. A wing flange extends upwardly along an inner side of the foot support surface to align the foot during extension and retraction of the foot plate assembly along the guide rails. Rollers are arranged along each side of the guide rails to support the foot plate assembly. The rollers are arranged into sets of at least three rollers including two upper rollers and at least one lower roller in a triangular configuration. At least one of the lower rollers is offset horizontally from and disposed between the at least two of the upper rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: MAGIC BY MAGIC, INC.
    Inventor: Magic Schwarz
  • Patent number: 10520580
    Abstract: A method and system for determining a position of tagged objects by their proximity to each other, where the position of a target object is provided as common names of other objects nearby. This allows new ways of tracking objects that are required to be together with each other, or to be within a certain area, while reducing the power consumption of electronic tags and tag readers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Haystack Magic Inc.
    Inventors: Misha Nossik, Dmitry Sotnikov, Alex Efros, Vadim Gouterman, Neil Teitelbaum
  • Patent number: 10463947
    Abstract: A snowboard controller includes a base placeable on an upper surface of a board for a snowboard, a plurality of joints that join the base to the upper surface of the board. The plurality of joints include one joint being a direct joint at which the base is directly joinable to the board in a rotatable manner, and other joints being indirect joints at which the base is indirectly joinable to the board with joining members. The indirect joints control bending of the board using the direct joint as a base point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignees: ARNAGE LIMITED CO., LTD., i-MAGIC, Inc.
    Inventors: Seiji Ara, Akihito Kawashima
  • Patent number: D925663
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Magic By Magic, INC.
    Inventor: Magic Schwarz
  • Patent number: D993345
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Penguin Magic, Inc.
    Inventor: Acar Altinsel
  • Patent number: D1014303
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Penguin Magic, Inc.
    Inventor: Acar Altinsel