Patents Examined by Benjamin Layno
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Patent number: 10603573Abstract: Disclosed is a ticket outputting game machine. The ticket outputting game machine includes a body having guide rails formed on a top surface thereof, a hitting portion formed on a front end of the guide rails, and a handle controlling a hitting force of the hitting portion on a front surface thereof, ticket display devices installed in a zigzag structure on both sides of the guide rails, and a ball position determination portion determining a held position of a ball between the guide rails to hit the ball by the hitting portion such that the ball moves along the guide rails and is held at a position determined by the ball position determination portion and the number of tickets displayed on the ticket display device corresponding to the position of holding the ball are output.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: KOMUSE CO., LTD.Inventors: Nam Ho Kang, Gyo In Lim
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Patent number: 10603572Abstract: An automatic card shuffler to shuffle eight decks of cards (or less) and deal a round of Baccarat. The automatic shuffler comprises two pre-shuffle bins, each receiving approximately four decks of cards wherein the pre-shuffle bins are spaced apart from one another with card slides directing to a card-receiving area. Cards are randomly selected from the cards in each of the pre-shuffle bins and propelled onto the card slides directing the cards to the card-receiving area. Once a sufficient number of buffer cards (e.g., seven) have been deposited into the card-receiving area, a card flipper moves the seven cards against a face plate of an integral dealing shoe. A buffer-holder member maintains the buffer cards against the face plate for dealing as the card flipper returns to a home position to receive more shuffled cards while buffer cards are being dealt in a round of Baccarat.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Inventors: Michael Earnest Riordan, Louis Wilson DeGregorio, Dino Louis DeGregorio, Steven Louis Forte, Westley Thomas Davis, Zachary Joesph Cook, Joseph William Riesen, Brendan John O'Toole
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Patent number: 10596431Abstract: A hockey stick with a co-molded structure and method where the blade member is formed by a molding process onto a preformed shaft member, where the preformed shaft member has a contoured tip at the blade end. The contoured tip helps to secure the blade member to the shaft member in conjunction with the molded composite layers, and in one example, the contoured tip has a width that is greater than the width of the shaft member at the blade-starting region.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Bauer Hockey, LLCInventor: Edouard Rouzier
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Patent number: 10589156Abstract: Provided is an adjustable putter grip. The adjustable putter grip includes a first grip member coupled adjacent a first end of a putter shaft. A putter head is coupled to a second end of the putter shaft. The adjustable putter grip also includes a second grip member coupled to the putter shaft between the first grip member and the second end of the putter shaft. The first grip member and the second grip member are rotatable with respect to each other to adjust grip position, the second grip member is rotatable with respect to the first grip member to adjust grip position, or the first grip member is rotatable with respect to the second grip member to adjust grip position. A method of forming a custom grip or custom fitting of a golfer is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Inventor: Charles Isgar
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Patent number: 10583336Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head may include a hollow body portion having a front portion, a rear portion, a toe portion, a heel portion, a bottom portion, a top portion, a first interior cavity portion, and a second interior cavity portion. The first interior cavity portion may be at least partially filled with a polymer material. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2018Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLCInventors: Robert R. Parsons, Bradley D. Schweigert, Michael R. Nicolette
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Patent number: 10576361Abstract: A deck of playing cards and a method of playing a game are provided. An object of the game is to form two lines on a grid, wherein a line is defined by a horizontal or vertical line of four in a row of the same player's cards. A further object of the game may be to form two strings on a grid, where a string is defined as a horizontal or vertical line made up of the same player's cards, the cards of each string containing four different elements, with a different element appearing on each card of the string. The game may be played with physical cards or in a virtual environment executed by a video game application on a computing device.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Inventor: Scott Russell Norman Gilbert Snow
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Patent number: 10569146Abstract: An golf club head with a structure that improves the sound and reduces stress placed on the face upon impact with a golf ball is disclosed herein. In particular, the golf club head is an iron with a face having a rear protrusion, also referred to as a piston, with both forward and rearward facing surfaces. The piston is at least partially received within a receptacle provided in the body of the golf club head. The receptacle also includes a pair of bumpers, one of which interacts with the piston to improve the sound of the face upon impact with a golf ball at speeds at which an average golfer would swing the club head, and the other of which reduces the stress placed on the face when the club makes impact with a golf ball at high speeds.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Callaway Golf CompanyInventors: James A. Seluga, Matthew Myers, Denver Holt
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Patent number: 10556172Abstract: A gaming machine 1 with a plurality of transparent mechanical reels 51a to 51e, a plurality of motors 60a to 60e arranged respectively for spinning and stopping the transparent mechanical reels 51a to 51e, and a display 20 arranged inside of circumference of the transparent mechanical reels 51a to 51e through which the display can be visually recognized from a player's viewpoint. The gaming machine (a) generates a start signal in response to a player's operation, (b) receives the generated start signal and randomly determines a symbol to be stopped and displayed, (c) displays rotation of combination of the transparent mechanical reels 51a to 51e rotated by the motors 60a to 60e and the video reels shown on the display 20, and (d) stops the rotational display at any determined symbol and grants an award to a player.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2016Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Arzest Corp.Inventor: Yutaka Sugano
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Patent number: 10543407Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head may include a body portion having a front portion, a rear portion, a toe portion, a heel portion, a bottom portion, a top portion, an interior, and a plurality of ports on the bottom portion. The golf club head may include a polymer insert in contact with an inner surface of the bottom portion. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2018Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLCInventors: Robert R. Parsons, Bradley D. Schweigert, Michael R. Nicolette
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Patent number: 10537771Abstract: Provided are a golf club head and a method for producing the golf club head. The golf club head comprises a striking face that in turn comprises a recurrent texture pattern that has a period T and that is defined by a plurality of depressions, each depression having an average depth no greater than 0.10 mm. The striking face also comprises a plurality of scorelines that at least partially intersect the recurrent texture pattern and that have a scoreline pitch Ps such that T/Ps is greater than 1.0, each scoreline having an average depth no less than 0.10 mm.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Patrick Ripp, Roberto Aguayo, Michael J. Kline
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Patent number: 10537787Abstract: Disclosed is a set of a plurality dice useful for playing a spelling game among multiple players and an exemplary method of playing the game. The plurality of dice is assembleable to form a dice block attractive for packaging. Typically, all of the dice are cube shaped and of the same dimensions. Each die of the set has each of its faces labeled with a character set consisting of one or more letters of the alphabet. The manner of play can be varied by altering the total number of individual dice in the dice set used for play, for example from 125 dice to 100 dice, by adding or removing dice specifically color-coded for that purpose. Thus the manner of play can be adjusted to alter the difficulty of play or the total time of play.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Inventors: Craig Pybus, Mariyam Pybus
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Patent number: 10532257Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head may include a body portion having a front portion including a face portion, a rear portion, a toe portion, a heel portion, a top portion, and a bottom portion. The face portion may have a center portion, an outer wall portion surrounding the center portion, and a plurality of inner wall portions connecting the center portion to the outer wall portion. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLCInventors: Bradley D. Schweigert, Michael R. Nicolette, Caleb S. Kroloff
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Patent number: 10525328Abstract: An automatic playing card shuffler system including an automatic playing card shuffler and deck of modified playing cards. The modifications relate to asymmetrical information on each card face, back and/or side for identifying playing card orientation. The asymmetrical information is discernable by one or more image-capturing and/or sensors associated with the automatic playing card shuffler. Accordingly, the orientation of the playing cards may be monitored by the automatic playing card shuffler. The orientation data can be analyzed by a processor of the automatic playing card shuffler to determine unusual orientation patterns indicative of advantage play or cheats. Another version utilizes two distinct marks to identify important cards and less important cards.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2017Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Inventors: Michael Earnest Riordan, Louis Wilson DeGregorio, Steven Louis Forte
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Patent number: 10525314Abstract: A golf club head includes a club head body and a weight member that is secured to the body in a weight mount. The weight member is constructed to utilize lateral forces to couple to the head body to minimize the structure required to retain the weight member. The weight member includes a spring feature that is movably coupled to a weight body so that it is movable between a first configuration and a second configuration. In the second configuration a portion of the spring feature extends outward from a side wall of the weight body. The weight mount includes an undercut and the spring feature extends into the undercut and is partially flexed by the abutment of the spring feature and a perimeter wall of weight mount when the weight member is disposed in the weight mount.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Jonathan Hebreo, Andrew McCarthy, Noah de la Cruz, Grant M. Martens
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Patent number: 10525330Abstract: A card reading apparatus is provided for playing a casino table game identified as Down Under Blackjack™. The apparatus includes a camera assembly, a computer, a housing assembly and a plurality of color indicators. The computer receives pixel-based image data from the camera assembly. This data is obtained from the dealer's down card during play of the game. The computer processes this data to output information related to a predetermined set of playing cards associated with the down card. Such output activates one of the color indicators corresponding to that particular predetermined set. The information associated with the activated indicator can be used by players in playing the Down Under Blackjack™ game. Use of the apparatus enables the game to be played using conventional playing cards.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: MASQUE PUBLISHING, INC.Inventors: John C. Ridges, Steven R. Setlik, James M. Wisler
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Patent number: 10529173Abstract: A gaming machine comprising a processor to execute a game displaying a matrix of symbol containing elements having a plurality of rows and a plurality columns; at least one column comprising a portion of a simulated rotatable reel of a plurality of said symbol containing elements; said simulated rotatable reel comprising sections of symbol containing elements displaying a plurality of symbols; said simulated rotatable reel including at least one section in which a consecutive run of two or more of said elements is populated by a first identical symbol so that, said first identical symbol being used for a first play of said game, a second identical symbol being randomly selected, the first identical symbol being replaced by the second identical symbol in said consecutive run of two or more of said elements, said second identical symbol being used for a second play of said game.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Konami Gaming, Inc.Inventor: Osamu Yoshimi
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Patent number: 10518166Abstract: In this board game, players take turns being the Chief and rating their level of agreement with prompts such as: “For $1000, I would be willing to wear the same underwear for a week without washing it.” The opinions are guessed using a scale from 1 (“Frostbite!—Completely Disagree”) to 10 (“All Ablaze!—Completely Agree”). Before the Chief reveals his/her rating, all of the other players guess the Chief's response using secret voting tokens, and all the votes are revealed simultaneously. At the end of the round, the closest matches score victory points. With over 700 cards already written, the prompts cover an enormous range of topics from intimate to hilarious, from every-day to fantastical, from family-oriented to party-friendly. Since the point system requires collecting points of all colors in order to win, you cannot win simply by knowing one other player extremely well.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Inventors: Willa Angel Chen, Shikui Kevin Chen, Quanjun Ling Chen
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Patent number: 10518144Abstract: A golf club head comprising at least one part manufactured via a metal injection molding process, and attached to another part of the golf club head via electrical resistance welding, is disclosed herein. The present invention is also directed to a method of making said golf club head, the method comprising the steps of providing a first golf club head part made from a first metal material, metal injection molding a second golf club head part from a second, different metal material, and electrical resistance welding the second golf club head part to the first golf club head part to form a combined part.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Callaway Golf CompanyInventors: Matthew R. Daraskavich, Joshua D. Westrum, Scott Manwaring, Kenneth E. Meacham, Catherine L. Ingbar, Justin Kuhar
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Patent number: 10518165Abstract: Methods of playing commission-free pai gow poker games are disclosed. The commission-free pai gow poker games have multiple features, including a novel push mechanism and a novel copy-fostering mechanism, that provide a gaming establishment with an adequate house edge without the need to charge a commission on player wins. The features of the commission-free pai gow poker games may be incorporated in one or more instruction sets or software configured in one or more mechanical devices and/or electronic devices. Furthermore, the features may be configured in one or more displays in communication with one or more servers as desired. Furthermore, the commission-free pai gow poker games may be offered in a non-gaming media environment as desired.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Lubin-Jones, LLCInventor: Daniel C. Lubin
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Patent number: 10518150Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads with deflection junctions are described herein. For example, a golf club head comprising: a crown, a sole, a toe skirt, a heel skirt; and a front end. The front end comprises a strikeplate having a strikeface, a backface, and a strikeplate perimeter, wherein the strikeplate and a joint segment are connected by a fixed joint. A deflection junction of the golf club head comprises a junction structure extending from the junction segment; a junction slot defined between the strikeplate perimeter and the junction structure; and a pivot bend between the junction segment and the junction structure and configured to pivot the junction structure relative to the junction segment upon impact between the strikeface and a golf ball. Other examples and related methods are also disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2018Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Karsten Manufacturing CorporationInventor: Brandon L. Fossum
