Patents by Inventor Leon Roberts

Leon Roberts 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: 20230097046
    Abstract: A gaming device comprises a display, a random number generator, a processor, and a memory storing instructions. When the instructions are executed by the processor, they cause the processor to conduct a base game from which feature games and at least one composite feature game can be triggered, where the composite feature game comprises game play characteristics from a first feature game and a second feature game of the feature games, and the composite feature game comprises a combination of the different game play characteristics. The composite feature game is initiated in response to a composite feature trigger condition being met. The game instances are presented with one or more feature game icon, which are modified in presentation during the game instances in accordance with an associated game play characteristic for a particular instance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Upinder Dhaliwal, Paul Connelly, Gaurav Goel, Dean Agan, Nitin Gupta, Neil Street, William Holland, Stephen Jones-McQueen, Leon Roberts, Nicholas O'Sullivan, Samuel Walker, Claudia Rae, Hanson Santoso, Dinh Tran
  • Publication number: 20170128801
    Abstract: A sport net comprising a frame defining a raised ball portal, a bottom shell extending at a downward slope away from the lower edge of the ball portal, and a rear net closing off the back of the sport net, such that balls entering the sport net are directed by the rear net and/or bottom shell toward and into a ball collection aperture at the lowest point in the bottom shell's downward slope and the balls can fall through the ball collection aperture into a collection receptacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: John Stirton, David Demery, Leon Roberts
  • Patent number: 7539622
    Abstract: The user can attach a stamp without a predetermined postage to an article to be mailed. The stamp has a top layer having a visual display, middle layer having an electronics layer, and a bottom layer having an adhesive layer. The stamp is encoded such that the visual display of the stamp is altered to indicate a state of the stamp. Postage of the article is determined by a postal authority worker and payment is authorized using the unique identifier. This eliminates the need for the sender to have any personal interaction with a postal worker to ship an article and eliminating the need for the sender to estimate postal cost prior to the article being received at the postal office. Altering the adhesive layer provides safe removal of the affixed stamp which can then be reused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Harris, Katherine Shann, Leon Roberts, Alexandra Pickerill
  • Patent number: 7457760
    Abstract: A method of using digital electronic paper in the form of a reusable stamp. The user can attach a stamp without a predetermined postage to an article to be mailed. The stamp has a top layer having a visual display, middle layer having an electronics layer, and a bottom layer having an adhesive layer. The stamp is encoded such that the visual display of the stamp is altered to indicate a state of the stamp. Postage of the article is determined by a postal authority worker and payment is authorized using the unique identifier. This eliminates the need for the sender to have any personal interaction with a postal worker to ship an article and eliminating the need for the sender to estimate postal cost prior to the article being received at the postal office. Altering the adhesive layer provides safe removal of the affixed stamp which can then be reused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Harris, Katherine Shann, Leon Roberts, Alexandra Pickerill