Patents by Inventor Cynthia S. Mark-Hummel

Cynthia S. Mark-Hummel 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).

  • Apparatus for interacting with a storyboard and for making rubbings
    Publication number: 20080003545
    Abstract: An apparatus which carries a storyboard comprised of images and/or text and which allows a user to place and arrange on a rubbing board select ones of a plurality of rubbing objects that are related to the images and/or text depicted on the storyboard. The apparatus further provides for the user positioning a sheet of paper over the selected and arranged rubbing objects whereupon the user may move a marker, crayon, or the like back and forth across the paper and the underlying rubbing object to cause the image(s) carried by the rubbing object(s) to be imposed onto the paper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Applicant: DuPage Children's Museum
    Inventors: Cynthia S. Mark-Hummel, Peter James Crabbe