Patents by Inventor Matthew Steven Sarconi

Matthew Steven Sarconi 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: 6881066
    Abstract: An amusement or educational device comprising a plurality of interlocking collars, each including gaps, and slidable along and rotatable about a common shaft. The common shaft bears element of a multi-relationship about its circumference in sections of the shaft corresponding to each interlocking collar. The gaps in the interlocking collars selectively expose corresponding elements of the multi-element relationship. In one embodiment, the collars are configured to allow users to construct fortunes, words, sentences, equations, or other relationships by selectively interlocking adjacent collars to expose word, mathematical, sentence or other appropriate elements disposed around the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Inventor: Matthew Steven Sarconi
  • Patent number: 6638072
    Abstract: An amusement or educational device comprising a plurality of interlocking collars slidable along and rotatable about a common shaft, and bearing elements of a multi-element relationship about their circumferences. In one embodiment, the collars are configured to allow users to construct fortunes, words, sentences, equations, or other relationships by selectively interlocking adjacent collars to align word, mathematical, sentence or other appropriate elements disposed around the collars. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a fortune-telling or entertainment device allowing users to compose fortunes or other relationships by selectively combining multi-word sentence fragments disposed around the circumference of interlocking collars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Inventor: Matthew Steven Sarconi