Patents by Inventor Dorothy R. Holmes

Dorothy R. Holmes 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: 5816574
    Abstract: This invention relates to a game and particularly, though not exclusively to a board game using a foreign language such as bahasa Indonesia, and a national language such as English. In one embodiment of the invention there is a board game comprising a game box (12) and a playing board (13, FIG. 2 ). The game box includes decks of key words/phrase cards (26), instruction/conversation starter cards (28), and conversation starter cards (24). Included is a set of playing markers used to move around the playing board. An advance wheel (32) is provided as a random number generating device for determining the number of spaces a player is to move around the board. The playing board has drawings/photographs together with instructions in the foreign language located in one or more spaces defining a first or second track (42), (44) respectively, positioned around the playing board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Inventor: Dorothy R. Holmes