Patents by Inventor Fred D. Charney

Fred D. Charney 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: 4629195
    Abstract: A travel game including a gameboard having indicia thereon relating to various locales. The game further includes a plurality of stackable time pieces which indicate the game time, a plurality of business establishment coupons which are associated with business establishment zones provided on the playing surface regions and present at the respective locales of such regions, these coupons being exchangeable for monetary coupons when a respective pawn lands on the respective zone as determined by the throw of dice, and postcards which can be revealed after a business establishment coupon has been betted thereon. The game also includes one terminating member which is randomly placed in the stack of time pieces and which indicates the end of the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1986
    Inventor: Fred D. Charney
  • Patent number: 4484749
    Abstract: A travel game arrangement includes a gameboard consisting of a plurality of polygonal plate-shaped gameboard elements which are separate from one another for storage purposes, but which can be assembled into a gameboard and interconnected by complementary male and female formations arranged at the corners of the elements. The formations have such shapes that the elements can be oriented with one or the other of its major playing surface regions facing upwardly, and yet be interconnected by the formations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1984
    Inventor: Fred D. Charney