Patents by Inventor Charles Speer

Charles Speer 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).

  • Wagering game method, gaming machine, gaming system, and program product providing an enhanced tournament award feature
    Patent number: 9005010
    Abstract: Gaming systems and methods provide a tournament game which selectively awards an enhanced tournament play result. The enhanced tournament play result may be of variable value which is selected for the given instance in order to place the receiving tournament player in some predetermined rank in the tournament. Such a variable enhanced tournament play result in the tournament game may be used to help keep all participants interested in the tournament, even those participants who trail the tournament leaders by a wide margin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Multimedia Games, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Watkins, Clint Owen, Allison Pope, Michael Conway, Charles Speer
  • WAGERING GAME METHOD, GAMING MACHINE, GAMING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT PROVIDING AN ENHANCED TOURNAMENT AWARD FEATURE
    Publication number: 20130084948
    Abstract: Gaming systems and methods provide a tournament game which selectively awards an enhanced tournament play result. The enhanced tournament play result may be of variable value which is selected for the given instance in order to place the receiving tournament player in some predetermined rank in the tournament. Such a variable enhanced tournament play result in the tournament game may be used to help keep all participants interested in the tournament, even those participants who trail the tournament leaders by a wide margin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Inventors: Brian Watkins, Clint Owen, Allison Pope, Michael Conway, Charles Speer