Patents by Inventor Gene Wilhelmi

Gene Wilhelmi 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).

  • Publication number: 20220161093
    Abstract: An athletic game, or sport where a player interacts with ricocheting ping pong balls emitting from an apparatus, challenging the player's reaction speed, and dexterity. The apparatus is wall mounted at about eye-level, or higher, said apparatus containing one or more ball retaining, and dispensing apertures that are controlled by a programmed chip. The game is played by a player anticipating a series of balls, that have no predictable sequence, being dropped from any one of several orifices, seeing each ball drop, strike a shelf, then bounce upward, giving the player an attempt to catch, net, hit, or shoot at a time interval controlled series of balls, before any can reach the floor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventor: Gene Wilhelmi
  • Publication number: 20200171377
    Abstract: An athletic game, or sport where a player interacts with ricocheting ping pong balls emitting from an apparatus, challenging the player's reaction speed, and dexterity. The apparatus is wall mounted at about eye-level, or higher, said apparatus containing one or more ball retaining, and dispensing apertures that are controlled by a programmed chip. The game is played by a player anticipating a series of balls; that have no predictable sequence, being dropped from any one of several orifices, seeing each ball drop, strike a shelf, then bounce upward, giving the player an attempt to catch, net, hit, or shoot at a time interval controlled series of balls, before any can reach the floor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventor: Gene Wilhelmi
  • Patent number: 7393255
    Abstract: The present invention is a to board riding craft having split tail sections. A central core element may have a tail end, a nose and two sides. A tail portion of the central core element may have one or more slits formed therein that may extend from the tail end approximately parallel to a centerline of the central core element approximately one eighth to one third the distance between the tail end and the nose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Inventor: Gene Wilhelmi
  • Patent number: 5529523
    Abstract: A surfboard having a foot brace and leveraged turning apparatus defined by a substantially "V" shaped channel which is positioned longitudinally along the length of the surfboard starting adjacent the aft end of the surfboard and terminating forward of the midsection of the surfboard, the apparatus being defined by a pair of inclined wall members that extend downwardly and inwardly, providing the riding surface of the surfboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Inventor: Gene Wilhelmi
  • Patent number: 5385494
    Abstract: A surfboard having a foot brace and leveraged turning apparatus defined by a substantially "V" shaped channel which is positioned longitudinally along the length of the surfboard starting adjacent the aft end of the surfboard and terminating forward of the midsection of the surfboard, the apparatus being defined by a pair of inclined wall members that extend downwardly and inwardly, providing the riding surface of the surfboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1995
    Inventor: Gene Wilhelmi
  • Patent number: 4986650
    Abstract: The invention relates to sun glasses that are particularly designed for use in water sport activities such as surfboarding and bodysurfing or other activities where the user thereof might inadvertently lose the glasss while in worn in the normal manner or when not in use and hung around the neck of the user. The sun glasses comprises a main frame member which support the glasse members therein and a unitary head band of semihard material that is formed having a pair of side temple members and an angularly disposed bowed section with the bowed section being bent downwardly from the side members so as to be located approximate the nape of the neck. The main frame is hingedly attached to the distal ends of the side temple members whereby the main frame can be adjustably positioned in one of two positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1991
    Inventor: Gene Wilhelmi