Patents Examined by John A. Ricci
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Patent number: 11896916Abstract: A tummy time support for infants has a wedge-shaped support having a flat bottom surface, a top surface inclined at a first angle in a range of about 8° to about 20° relative to the bottom surface, a front side at the peak of the incline, a rear side at the base of the incline. In a top view thereof, the front side has two concave recesses positioned proximate shoulder positions of an infant and the rear side has a single elongate concave recess with a peak centered between the two concave recesses. Kits are disclosed that have of a mat having a first fastener and a first tummy time support having a second faster releasably mutable to the first fastener. The kit can include a toy support and a second tummy time support that is bigger or smaller than the first tummy time support.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Inventor: Anne H. Zachry
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Patent number: 11890553Abstract: A leg actuator mechanism, a method of manufacturing the leg actuator mechanism, and a doll implementing a leg actuator mechanism is provided. The leg actuator includes an upper leg mechanism comprising a hip end and an opposing knee end. The leg actuator also includes a lower leg mechanism comprising a first end and an opposing second end, wherein the first end of the lower leg portion is operably coupled to the knee end of the upper leg portion. The leg actuator further includes a follower mechanism. The follower mechanism includes a mounting defining a follower pathway configured to receive a follower joint. The follower mechanism also includes an upper follower connector and a lower follower connector. The follower mechanism moves at least one of the upper leg mechanism or the lower leg mechanism when activated.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Inventor: Jonathan Bright
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Patent number: 11892263Abstract: A shaking bullet chain structure of a toy gun is provided. The toy gun has a gun body and an action. The structure includes a fixing base, a slider, a bullet chain, and a sway assembly. The fixing base is disposed beside the gun body and includes a frame and a cover. The slider is movably connected to the cover and is provided with a working trough. The bullet chain is hung on the fixing base and includes multiple bullets and a belt. One end of the sway assembly is pivoted to the frame, and another end is connected to an insert rod. The insert rod penetrates a bullet and the working trough. When the action reciprocates in the gun body, the action is configured to drives the slider to move therewith to further drive the bullet chain to shake by the working trough pushing the insert rod.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: VEGA FORCE INTERNATIONAL CORP.Inventors: Shih-Che Kung, Wei-Hung Chung
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Patent number: 11892265Abstract: An anti dry fire trigger device contains: a holder, a fixer, a string hook, a connection trigger, a safety switch, and an engagement element. The holder includes a channel, a slidable actuation element, and an accommodation groove having two defining orifices. The fixer includes a push portion, a limitation portion, and a first rotatable coupling portion. The string hook includes a hooking portion, an abutting portion, and a second rotatable coupling portion. The connection trigger rotatably includes a fastening portion and a driving portion. The safety switch slidably includes two slidable posts configured to limit the safety switch on an opening position and a closing position. The engagement element slidably is connected with the safety switch and includes a defined portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Man Kung Enterprise Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fu-Hui Chu, Ching-Chi Hung
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Patent number: 11885603Abstract: A connector for coupling an arrow shaft and an arrowhead to each other includes an insert configured for coupling with the arrow shaft and an outsert configured for coupling with an arrowhead.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: FeraDyne Outdoors, LLCInventor: Matthew Haas
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Patent number: 11885599Abstract: A shooting target thrower for throwing a shooting target includes a throwing arm rotatable about a throwing axis to throw the shooting target. A throwing spring is operatively coupled to the throwing arm and rotates the throwing arm to throw the shooting target. A drive train is operatively coupled to the throwing arm and includes a charge pedal and a fire pedal. The charge pedal rotates the throwing arm toward a cocked position. The fire pedal releases the throwing arm to rotate, under a force of the throwing spring, from the cocked position to throw the shooting target.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2023Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: AOB Products CompanyInventors: Paul Coryell, Michael Lindsay, Michael Cottrell, James Tayon
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Patent number: 11883761Abstract: An entertainment system includes a drone configured to be maneuvered across a plurality of zones, an interactive toy device configured to be actuated to cause a plurality of toy reactions, one or more processors, and one or more non-transitory, computer readable media having instructions stored thereon. The instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to determine a correlation between the drone and the interactive toy device, where the correlation is based on a proximity between the drone and the interactive toy device and at least one of: a location of the drone within a zone of the plurality of zones, an additional location of the interactive toy device within the zone or an additional zone of the plurality of zones, a non-position based physical attribute of the drone, or an additional non-position based physical attribute of the interactive toy device.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Universal City Studios LLCInventors: Melinda Ng, Anthony Melo
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Patent number: 11874085Abstract: A trigger-traverse crossbow. The crossbow has a trigger latch block slidingly connected to the flight track. The trigger latch block is configured to engage and retain the bowstring. A cocking mechanism is configured to draw the trigger latch block with the bowstring from an initial position near a forward end of the flight track to a cocked position. A one-way retention mechanism is configured to immobilize the trigger latch block against linear movement in a forward direction along the flight track. A trigger-traverse mechanism is configured to slide the trigger latch block in a forward direction to its initial position after the bowstring is released. In one embodiment, the cocking mechanism includes a cocking lever pivotally connected to the crossbow body along with one pair or two pairs of cocking hooks that move in response to the rotation of the cocking lever.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Barnett Outdoors, LLCInventor: David A. Barnett
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Patent number: 11865469Abstract: A doll playset is disclosed. The doll playset doll playset comprises a doll head and at least one wig cap. The doll head comprises a plurality of indentations located at a plurality of locations on the doll head. The doll head further comprises a first plurality of magnets. Further, each of the first plurality of magnets is coupled to each of the plurality of indentations. The at least one wig cap having a second plurality of magnets. The at least one wig cap is detachably coupled to the doll head by coupling the second plurality of magnets with the first plurality of magnets.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Inventor: Angelica Sweeting
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Patent number: 11857888Abstract: The toy gas station playset is configured for use as an amusement. The toy gas station playset present figurines and puppets that are used to emulate the activities of a vehicle park. The emulated activities include, but are not limited to the parking and refueling of a vehicle. The toy gas station playset forms a bi-level structure within which the emulated activities are performed. The toy gas station playset comprises a pedestal structure, a plurality of stanchions, and an elevated platform structure. The plurality of stanchions elevates the elevated platform structure above the pedestal structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Inventor: Sherry Chasteen
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Patent number: 11857890Abstract: An interactive toy, system, and method of controlling the same. The interactive toy includes a toy housing comprising therein a function device performing user-perceptible, controllable functions; a control circuit controlling the function device; a rechargeable power source providing operating power to the function device and the control circuit; and a charging circuit for contactless receipt of electrical energy and for charging the rechargeable power source when the interactive toy is positioned in a charging zone of a contactless charging device. The control circuit receives a primary signal indicative of an interaction stimulus; a secondary signal indicative of a position of the interactive toy with respect to the charging zone; and, responsive to the primary signal, controls the function device to perform a user-perceptible function selected based on the secondary signal. The interactive toy system includes an interactive toy and a contactless charging device defining one or more charging zones.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: LEGO A/SInventors: Thomas Alan Donaldson, Mark Ross Champkins, Radost Radoslavova Kerefeyna, Rasmus Bissenbakker Kærsgaard, Yufan Wei Wang, Arun Venkatasubramanian, Simon Mark Jordan, Andrew James Knights, Isobel Jane Ashbey, Martin Edward Brock, Rosanna Elizabeth Parrish, Silviu Toma, Robert George Milner
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Patent number: 11859960Abstract: A arrow system embodying a glue-in configuration or screw-over configuration of broadhead to arrow shaft connection is provided. The glue-in configuration provides an externally threadless broadhead shank for slidably reception into the complementary and cross-sectionally coextensive lumen of the arrow shaft. The screw-over configuration provides a broadhead with female internal threading that operatively associates with male threading of an insert that interconnects the broadhead to the lumen of the arrow shaft.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Inventor: Richard M. Forrest
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Patent number: 11859942Abstract: In some embodiments, an archery bow comprises a riser, a limb member and a support member. The limb member is supported by the riser at a first location. The limb member supports an axle at a second location. The support member is supported by the riser and arranged to support the limb member. The support member contacts the limb member at a contact location. The contact location is oriented between the first location and the second location along the length of the limb member.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: MCP IP, LLCInventors: Brandon J. Gann, Mathew A. McPherson
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Patent number: 11852454Abstract: A broadhead blade gravity lock and inertia release apparatus and method consists of a. support structure with a locking pin channel. A blade is attached with the support structure such that the blade is movable from a first position to a second position. A pressure device is connected with the blade where the pressure device is configured to apply pressure to the blade.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Inventor: Matthew Futtere
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Patent number: 11850532Abstract: A stack and nest toy is provided. The toy includes a plurality tube sections that each comprise a scaled variant of a matching shape such that a first of the plurality of tube sections is scaled to nest around a second of the plurality of tube sections. The second of the plurality of tube sections is scaled such that a respective outer surface of a bottom portion thereof is configured to interlock with a respective inner surface of a top portion of the first of the plurality of tube sections and, when the first of the plurality of tube sections is interlocked with the second one of the plurality of tube sections, an orientation of the first of the plurality of tube sections is rotationally different from an orientation of the second of the plurality of tube sections.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: TOMY International, Inc.Inventor: Gal Simchoni
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Patent number: 11852437Abstract: In some embodiments, an archery bow comprises a riser comprising a grip location and a cavity. A first limb is supported by the riser and attached by a first limb fastener. A second limb is supported by the riser and attached by a second limb fastener. A bowstring extends between the limbs. A vibration damper is located in the cavity, the vibration damper comprising a resilient member and a weight. A first distance from the bowstring to the first limb fastener is less than a second distance from the bowstring to the vibration damper.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: MCP IP, LLCInventors: Mathew A. McPherson, Jeffrey A. Ozanne
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Patent number: 11852453Abstract: A new dart has an integrally formed flight part that is made of thin plastic with a uniform thickness. The flight part has a set of flexible blades that are radially offset, with the width of each blades being coplanar, and extending perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of a stem on which a barrel and dart tip are connected. Edges on a central portion of the flight part engage cooperating surfaces on a retainer, locking the retainer and the flight part against rotation with respect to each other. A self-lubricating bearing fits over the a stem and is used to connect to the flight part and the retainer for rotation with respect to a barrel and dart tip. A channel extends along the length of each blade. A bubble is positioned outwardly of the channel.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Inventor: Claude E. Keller
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Patent number: 11846487Abstract: An archery bow is disclosed herein. The archery bow, in an embodiment, has a body, a plurality of limbs and a motion generator configured to cause the limbs to move. The archery bow also includes a draw cord and a device configured to be moveably coupled to the body. The device has a surface configured to be grasped. The device is configured to cause the draw cord to be pulled as a result of the device being moved relative to the body.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: KRYSSE ASInventor: Anders Paur Thalberg
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Patent number: 11845013Abstract: A wheel for a toy vehicle, the wheel comprising an axle hub defining a wheel axis of rotation and a rim with an inboard flange and an outboard flange each having an outer diameter. The wheel further comprises a primary tire forming the tread of the wheel with a tread diameter and a tread width. The primary tire is attached to the axle hub between the inboard and the outboard flange such that it rotates with the axle hub. The wheel further comprises an outboard slip ring rotatably mounted between the primary tire and the outboard flange so that the outboard slip ring can rotate with respect to the primary tire about the wheel axis of rotation. The outboard slip ring has an outer diameter smaller than the tread diameter and larger than the outer diameter of the outboard flange.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: LEGO A/SInventors: Jørn Skovløber Hansen, Carl Edward Loader
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Patent number: 11835317Abstract: A bow accessory coupler and method are disclosed herein. The bow accessory coupler, in an embodiment, includes a body. The body has a first surface including an interface configured to face in a first direction and engage a rear face of a bow riser. The body also has a second surface configured to face in a second direction. Furthermore, the body includes a portion having a dovetail shape. The body defines at least one opening configured to receive a fastener, and the portion is configured to be coupled to an element of an accessory.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: QTM, LLCInventor: Daniel A. Summers