Patents by Inventor Fritz Egner

Fritz Egner 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: 6616143
    Abstract: A system and method for conducting a game show which is lottery based, at least to the extent of randomly selecting a predetermined number of contestants from a plurality of lottery participants each of which has purchased a chance of being a contestant. At least some or preferably all of the selected contestants are successively chosen as an active contestant to which a plurality of questions are offered. The questions are answered not by the active contestant but by a randomly selected one of a plurality of panel members incapable of being observed by the active contestant during the random selection and answering procedure, wherein a viewing audience, at least a portion of which may be defined by a television audience, concurrently view the active contestant and one or more of the panel members. A grand prize at least partially derived from the proceeds of the lottery is awarded to the active contestant to which the most correct answers have been credited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Inventors: Fritz Egner, Antonio Geissler, Gregory Heath