Patents by Inventor Christopher A. Calhoun

Christopher A. Calhoun 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: 5547199
    Abstract: A method of playing a sentence forming game is disclosed which consists of a plurality of cards with a plurality of sentences (12) known as sentence cards or sentence means (10), a plurality of cards with a plurality of pictorial elements (16) known as picture cards or picture means (14), and a plurality of rewards or scoring means (36). Players chose a sentence (12) from sentence card or sentence means (10) to form by finding relationships between words in sentence (12) on sentence card or sentence means (10) and pictorial elements (16) on picture cards or picture means (14). These relationships are subjectively judged by the other players. Players receive rewards and/or scoring means (36) based on if their explanations are subjectively judged by the other players to be interesting, creative, and/or entertaining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1996
    Inventor: Christopher A. Calhoun
  • Patent number: 5333878
    Abstract: A maze type board game comprising a game board (17) having a plurality of maze areas (22) and segments interconnected between maze areas comprising a plurality of spaces which include: movement spaces (19), starting spaces (20) and transport spaces (18), at least one separate movable search piece (16) for each player, and a plurality of maze walls (12) for disposition on the game board, the spaces and maze walls having cooperative dimensions such that a plurality of maze walls are required to define a maze on the game board. The game is played in an attempt by one player to find the marked orb(s) (15) hidden among decoy orb(s) (14) of another player while the player, whose marked orb(s) is/are being searched for, places maze walls to delay or prevent other player(s) from finding the marked orb(s) thus forming a maze that must have at least one entrance and path leading to every marked orb in that maze area from the interconnected segments between the maze areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1994
    Inventor: Christopher A. Calhoun