Patents by Inventor Brian Lapoint

Brian Lapoint 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: 5593337
    Abstract: A toy set that can be assembled into roughly polyhedral shapes, the toy set including a number of toy pieces each made from a relatively thin, flexible material, each having a defined edge shape, and each including at least three non-radial slots communicating with the edge and sized and shaped to hold another toy piece inserted in the slot, to allow the toy pieces to be interfitted and assembled into roughly polyhedral shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Inventor: Brian Lapointe
  • Patent number: 5540611
    Abstract: A hollow, flexible cover, molded in the shape of a full or partial sculpture, and designed to fit over the open end of a can, glass, cup, bottle, or carton type beverage container, and having an opening for a straw, to extend into the container to siphon liquid therefrom, such that the change in atmospheric pressure within the container, created by an intermittent siphoning of liquid, causes the cover to collapse and expand in a controlled manner and thereby exhibit animation or lifelike movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Inventors: Brian Lapoint, Ross Bennett
  • Patent number: D398337
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Inventor: Brian LaPointe
  • Patent number: D423782
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Inventors: Jill Ammerman, Brian Lapointe
  • Patent number: D428942
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Inventor: Brian Lapointe