Patents by Inventor Kevin Gene Normann

Kevin Gene Normann 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).

  • Methods and apparatus for generating a unique virtual item
    Patent number: 9858605
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for generating a unique virtual item are disclosed. In some embodiments, an encoding specification for a unique virtual item is generated. One or more components of the encoding specification influence properties of the unique virtual item. The generating includes deriving a first set of the one or more components from a plurality of items of personalization information. One or more item characteristics for the unique virtual item are created from the encoding specification. The one or more item characteristics describe a unique feature set for the unique virtual item in terms customized for a type of a rendering client. The creating the one or more item characteristics further comprises selecting based on the one or more components the unique feature set from options offered by a rule set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Midnight Studios, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Dean Normann, Kevin Gene Normann, Omar Besim Hakim
  • Methods and Apparatus for Generating a Unique Virtual Item
    Publication number: 20160180425
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for generating a unique virtual item are disclosed. In some embodiments, an encoding specification for a unique virtual item is generated. One or more components of the encoding specification influence properties of the unique virtual item. The generating includes deriving a first set of the one or more components from a plurality of items of personalization information. One or more item characteristics for the unique virtual item are created from the encoding specification. The one or more item characteristics describe a unique feature set for the unique virtual item in terms customized for a type of a rendering client. The creating the one or more item characteristics further comprises selecting based on the one or more components the unique feature set from options offered by a rule set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Midnight Studios, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Dean Normann, Kevin Gene Normann, Omar Besim Hakim
  • Methods and apparatus for generating a unique virtual item
    Patent number: 8843585
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for generating a unique virtual item are disclosed. In some embodiments, an encoding specification for a unique virtual item is generated. One or more components of the encoding specification influence properties of the unique virtual item. The generating includes deriving a first set of the one or more components from a plurality of items of personalization information. One or more item characteristics for the unique virtual item are created from the encoding specification. The one or more item characteristics describe a unique feature set for the unique virtual item in terms customized for a type of a rendering client. The creating the one or more item characteristics further comprises selecting based on the one or more components the unique feature set from options offered by a rule set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Midnight Studios, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Dean Normann, Kevin Gene Normann, Omar Besim Hakim