Patents by Inventor John R. Newcomer

John R. Newcomer 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: 6224485
    Abstract: A high-score display system for a video game includes a memory and a display coupled to a game controller of a video game. The game controller causes the display to show active game play sequences responsive to player inputs and simulated game play during an attract mode. Information associated with prior plays of the video game, including high score player identifiers, are stored in the memory. The controller causes selected ones of the high score player identifiers to be displayed in a plurality of available display areas of the video game including static display areas, movable display areas and conditional display areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Midway Amusement Games, LLC
    Inventors: Vince Dickinson, John R. Newcomer
  • Patent number: 4436309
    Abstract: A game including a game board having a base and pegs upstanding on the base arranged in columns and rows to define a grid of uniformly sized squares. A plurality of square cards each of which is divided into nine colored squares identical in size to the squares of the game board is provided. Notches are formed along the sides of each card at the corners of each square and openings are formed in the card at the corners of the center square so that the cards can be fitted over the pegs and against one another and the base of the game board. The squares on the cards are arranged in patterns of color so the cards can be placed on top of one another in a partially overlapping manner to ultimately form a pattern of nine contiguous squares of the same color when viewed from above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1984
    Assignee: Gordon Barlow Design
    Inventors: Gordon A. Barlow, John R. Newcomer, Fred Bezark
  • Patent number: 4367875
    Abstract: A boxing type amusement game including a pair of figures of boxers. Each boxer has a torso with a blow actuated trigger. An inflated launchable balloon is mounted as a head on each torso. At least one arm is pivotally mounted on the torso and has a fist for hitting and actuating a trigger of an opposing boxer. The launchable balloon is mounted on the torso under tension and sealed against air leakage. The trigger releases the balloon and launches it when it is struck by the fist of an opposing boxer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1983
    Assignee: Gordon Barlow Design
    Inventors: Gordon A. Barlow, John R. Newcomer, John R. Krutsch, Fred Bezark