Patents by Inventor Matthew A. Kirby

Matthew A. Kirby 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: 6328308
    Abstract: The invention involves an array of playing-cards playable by three or more persons, which delightfully spontaneous if unpredictable word, term, phrase, or picture comparison combinations, invites stimulating social-intercourse. Of the two essential sets of cards furnished with the basic OuickPik™-game iteration, an exemplified first set of Apple-cards each bear different pictures or terms generally derived from: “people, events, nature, places, things, etc.”; while a set of Orange-cards each may bear a picture or descriptive wording such as the terms—“bumpy, slow, magnificent”. Thus, Apple-cards are randomly issued for comparison as to which best typifies the Orange-card over the others,—hence comparing—“apples and oranges”; and a “quick-pick” feature takes the slowest player briefly out of contention,—thereby compelling an exciting rapid-pace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Inventor: Matthew A. Kirby
  • Patent number: 5918881
    Abstract: The invention sets forth an improved procedure and facile supporting apparatus, enabling players in a game for example, to make unbias determination by sole virtue of chanch, (as a random pointer-device employed in place of a traditional spinner), as to whom shall be the player selected for virtually any imaginable purpose. The apparatus is a platonic-solid,--that is, having equal faces, equal vertices, equal dihedral-angles between the faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1999
    Inventor: Matthew A. Kirby