Patents by Inventor David Little

David Little 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: 12315343
    Abstract: A gaming system for enabling the simultaneous play of social virtual currency, wager-based gaming and free, play-for-fun gaming is described. The gaming system is configured to deliver a fun game to a client in conjunction with a virtual currency gaming event and to initiate play of a fun game upon a predesignated triggering event of the virtual currency game. The fun game is played by a plurality of players and fun game controller directs game information to a fun game server. Fun game information can be displayed for multiple players to drive competitive-type play among players and can be used to provide awards and incentivize play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: LNW Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Causley, David Little
  • Publication number: 20250091307
    Abstract: An inflatable structure (300) made from a composite material, wherein the inflatable structure is manufactured from at least two formed material sheets (315) that are cut out of the composite material according to a predefined cut-out structure (320), and wherein the formed material sheets are glued together at respective joins (330) of the formed material sheets via a respective double-sided adhesive tape (340).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Richard James Huntley Lott, Christopher Gabriel Williams, Paul Travor Hayden, David Little
  • Publication number: 20240301919
    Abstract: The Drive System consists of a Dual-Purpose Driver (100) and an Adapter 200, allowing a battery powered drill to drive either a Sidewind Dropleg Trailer Jack or a Strap Winch. The Dual-Purpose Driver (100) inserts into a Strap Winch or into the Adapter 200 which replaces the handle of a Sidewind Dropleg Trailer Jack. The hex rod (10) inserts into the battery powered drill. Spring loaded buttons (50) protruding from the hollow cylinder (20) of the Dual-Purpose Driver 100 engage the Strap Winch, while slots (40) slide over a pin 140 in the Adapter 200.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventor: Kenneth David Little
  • Patent number: 12039833
    Abstract: There is provided a gaming method and system that utilize a presentation assembly configured to present a series of spins of a plurality of reels arranged in an array, the plurality of reels including value-bearing symbols, wherein any value-bearing symbol that lands in an active subset of the array is collected in a collection area. At a conclusion of the series of spins, a payout based on the values of the collected value-bearing symbols is awarded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: LNW Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Bernadine Attard, David Little
  • Publication number: 20240202625
    Abstract: A system for failure detection tools is disclosed. The system may include at least one user device, an application server, and a failure detection system, each of which may be in communication with one or more of the others via at least one network. The failure detection system may receive first data from a data source, process the first data to generate second data, apply a statistical modeling algorithm to make a prediction relating to the first data or the second data, and communicate data relating to the prediction and/or a trend related to the first data or the second data to the user device for displaying at least a portion of the data relating to the prediction and/or the trend on a display of the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Michael P. Simeone, David Little, George Boben, Shashank Kapoor, Deepan Nedumaran, Aravind Sundaresan
  • Patent number: 11928622
    Abstract: A system for failure detection tools is disclosed. The system may include at least one user device, an application server, and a failure detection system, each of which may be in communication with one or more of the others via at least one network. The failure detection system may receive first data from a data source, process the first data to generate second data, apply a statistical modeling algorithm to make a prediction relating to the first data or the second data, and communicate data relating to the prediction and/or a trend related to the first data or the second data to the user device for displaying at least a portion of the data relating to the prediction and/or the trend on a display of the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Michael P. Simeone, David Little, George Boben, Shashank Kapoor, Deepan Nedumaran, Aravind Sundaresan
  • Patent number: 11922774
    Abstract: A gaming system for enabling the simultaneous play of real-money, wager-based gaming and free, play-for-fun gaming is described. The gaming system is configured to deliver a fun game to a client in conjunction with a real-money gaming event and to initiate play of a fun game upon a predesignated triggering event of the real money game. The fun game is played by a plurality of players and fun game controller directs game information to a fun game server. Fun game information can be displayed for multiple players to drive competitive-type play among players and can be used to provide awards and incentivize play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: LNW Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Causley, David Little
  • Patent number: 11905746
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed relating to friction hinges. In one example, a friction hinge comprises a first stub and adjacent second stub extending from a stub substrate. A first finger extends from a finger substrate between the first stub and the second stub and comprises a distal contacting face that is biased into contact with a first biasing face of the first stub. A second finger adjacent to the first finger extends from the finger substrate between the first stub and the second stub and comprises a distal contacting face that is biased into contact with a second biasing face of the second stub. A pin extends through apertures in the first stub, first finger, second finger, and second stub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Gordon Oldani, Jordan David Little
  • Patent number: 11710370
    Abstract: There is provided a gaming method and system that utilize a presentation assembly configured to present a series of spins of a plurality of reels arranged in an array, the plurality of reels including value-bearing symbols, wherein any value-bearing symbol that lands in an active subset of the array is collected in a collection area. At a conclusion of the series of spins, a payout based on the values of the collected value-bearing symbols is awarded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: LNW Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Bernadine Attard, David Little
  • Patent number: 11495091
    Abstract: A gaming system for enabling the simultaneous play of real-money, wager-based gaming and free, play-for-fun gaming is described. The gaming system is configured to deliver a fun game to a client in conjunction with a real-money gaming event and to initiate play of a fun game upon a predesignated triggering event of the real money game. The fun game is played by a plurality of players and fun game controller directs game information to a fun game server. Fun game information can be displayed for multiple players to drive competitive-type play among players and can be used to provide awards and incentivize play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SG Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Causley, David Little
  • Publication number: 20220138652
    Abstract: A system for failure detection tools is disclosed. The system may include at least one user device, an application server, and a failure detection system, each of which may be in communication with one or more of the others via at least one network. The failure detection system may receive first data from a data source, process the first data to generate second data, apply a statistical modeling algorithm to make a prediction relating to the first data or the second data, and communicate data relating to the prediction and/or a trend related to the first data or the second data to the user device for displaying at least a portion of the data relating to the prediction and/or the trend on a display of the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Michael P. Simeone, David Little, George Boben, Shashank Kapoor, Deepan Nedumaran, Aravind Sundaresan
  • Publication number: 20210350672
    Abstract: A gaming system for enabling the simultaneous play of real-money, wager-based gaming and free, play-for-fun gaming is described. The gaming system is configured to deliver a fun game to a client in conjunction with a real-money gaming event and to initiate play of a fun game upon a predesignated triggering event of the real money game. The fun game is played by a plurality of players and fun game controller directs game information to a fun game server. Fun game information can be displayed for multiple players to drive competitive-type play among players and can be used to provide awards and incentivize play.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: SG Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Causley, David Little
  • Patent number: 11069194
    Abstract: A gaming system for enabling the simultaneous play of real-money, wager-based gaming and free, play-for-fun gaming is described. The gaming system is configured to deliver a fun game to a client in conjunction with a real-money gaming event and to initiate play of a fun game upon a predesignated triggering event of the real money game. The fun game is played by a plurality of players and fun game controller directs game information to a fun game server. Fun game information can be displayed for multiple players to drive competitive-type play among players and can be used to provide awards and incentivize play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Lightning Box Games Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Peter Causley, David Little
  • Patent number: 10736674
    Abstract: An intramedullary orthopaedic device is disclosed including an intramedullary rod configured for insertion into a bone, the rod including a first elongate member having a first mating surface and at least a second elongate member having a second mating surface. The first mating surface is configured to engage with the second mating surface such that the elongate members are longitudinally moveable but substantially not rotationally moveable relative to each other. Each mating surface can have an elongate ridge and an elongate groove. A guided growth system and method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: SYDNEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS NETWORK (RANDWICK AND WESTMEAD)
    Inventors: David Little, Justin Bobyn
  • Patent number: 10624583
    Abstract: A sensor assembly which includes a first physiological parameter sensor configured to sense a physiological parameter and a first reactance sensor connected to the first physiological parameter sensor. The first reactance sensor provides a signal corresponding to a position of a tissue relative to the first reactance sensor and corresponding to the first physiological parameter sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Nonin Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: David Lee Lemke, Patrick David Little, Douglas R. Maser, Jordan Clifford Welch Hartmann, Matthew Prior
  • Patent number: 9972162
    Abstract: There is disclosed an electronic gaming system (100) comprising one or more player interfaces (6, 7, 17), and a main video display screen (1). The system enables players to simultaneously play a plurality of reel-type games and to place bets on lines of the games. The system displays a plurality of display windows on the main display screen, each window being associated with a respective one of the simultaneously played games and displaying the reels of that game, each reel displaying reel indicia. The system is configured for any one of the games to enter a feature phase when a feature-triggering event occurs. At the start of the feature phase, all the display windows on the main screen, except the particular display window associated with the feature phase, reduce in size or disappear, while the size of the feature game's display window increases, and the other games are also suspended, until the feature phase is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: David Little
  • Publication number: 20170270742
    Abstract: There is disclosed an electronic gaming system (100) comprising one or more player interfaces (6, 7, 17), and a main video display screen (1). The system enables players to simultaneously play a plurality of reel-type games and to place bets on lines of the games. The system displays a plurality of display windows on the main display screen, each window being associated with a respective one of the simultaneously played games and displaying the reels of that game, each reel displaying reel indicia. The system is configured for any one of the games to enter a feature phase when a feature-triggering event occurs. At the start of the feature phase, all the display windows on the main screen, except the particular display window associated with the feature phase, reduce in size or disappear, while the size of the feature game's display window increases, and the other games are also suspended, until the feature phase is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventor: David Little
  • Patent number: 9685032
    Abstract: There is disclosed an electronic gaming system (100) comprising one or more player interfaces (6, 7, 17), and a main video display screen (1). The system enables players to simultaneously play a plurality of reel-type games and to place bets on lines of the games. The system displays a plurality of display windows on the main display screen, each window being associated with a respective one of the simultaneously played games and displaying the reels of that game, each reel displaying reel indicia. The system is configured for any one of the games to enter a feature phase when a feature-triggering event occurs. At the start of the feature phase, all the display windows on the main screen, except the particular display window associated with the feature phase, reduce in size or disappear, while the size of the feature game's display window increases, and the other games are also suspended, until the feature phase is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: David Little
  • Publication number: 20170014166
    Abstract: An intramedullary bone device which has an internal lumen defined by a sidewall is described. The sidewall includes first and second perforated regions having respective first and second openings. The device also includes fluid flow directing features to direct the flow of a fluid from the internal lumen of the device through the openings in the sidewall of the device. The device may be part of a system with a fluid introducer member inserted through the internal lumen of the device. A method of securing and/or stabilising a bone including a fractured bone is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: David Little
  • Publication number: 20160351004
    Abstract: There is disclosed an electronic gaming system (100) comprising one or more player interfaces (6, 7, 17), and a main video display screen (1). The system enables players to simultaneously play a plurality of reel-type games and to place bets on lines of the games. The system displays a plurality of display windows on the main display screen, each window being associated with a respective one of the simultaneously played games and displaying the reels of that game, each reel displaying reel indicia. The system is configured for any one of the games to enter a feature phase when a feature-triggering event occurs. At the start of the feature phase, all the display windows on the main screen, except the particular display window associated with the feature phase, reduce in size or disappear, while the size of the feature game's display window increases, and the other games are also suspended, until the feature phase is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventor: David Little