Patents by Inventor Anne Frances Mersereau

Anne Frances Mersereau 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).

  • Patent number: 8052534
    Abstract: An interactive entertainment system including numerous thematically-related elements, and particularly including one or more pliant, design-bearing ornaments which are transferable and/or attachable nearly anywhere. Each ornament includes and defines a character embodied in a design fixed thereupon, and such characters provide a thematic-basis and continuity throughout the numerous features and elements of the invented entertainment system. The ornaments are typically universally-interchangeable within the system embodiments, being operably attachable and detachable via reciprocal hook and loop fastener, for example, with any of a great variety of structures, each structure configured for coupling an ornament with one or more of a great variety of substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Pak Nak, LLC
    Inventors: Marissa Beth Crouch, Anne Frances Mersereau, James Stewart, Patrick D. Boyd
  • Publication number: 20090036219
    Abstract: An interactive entertainment system including numerous thematically-related elements, and particularly including one or more pliant, design-bearing ornaments which are transferrable and/or attachable nearly anywhere. Each ornament includes and defines a character embodied in a design fixed thereupon, and such characters provide a thematic-basis and continuity throughout the numerous features and elements of the invented entertainment system. The ornaments are typically universally-interchangeable within the system embodiments, being operably attachable and detachable via reciprocal hook and loop fastener, for example, with any of a great variety of structures, each structure configured for coupling an ornament with one or more of a great variety of substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventors: Marissa Beth Crouch, Anne Frances Mersereau, James Stewart, Patrick D. Boyd