Patents by Inventor Richard B. Hanbicki

Richard B. Hanbicki 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: 7351145
    Abstract: A gaming method and apparatus enabling a casino to track the average amount that a player bets at a gaming table, the total amount of player bets at a gaming table (handle) and the players win/loss experience, by measuring and recording into an electronic file each players bet at each betting station of each table a player frequents. The exact amount of each players bet will be measured by the total chip weight of the relevant bet via assigning a specific weight to each chip denomination wherein no two groups of chips in which a total number chips are different from one another have the same total weight, even though their monetary value may be the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: MAO, Inc.
    Inventors: Marvin A. Ornstein, Richard B. Hanbicki
  • Patent number: 5788574
    Abstract: A betting apparatus incorporated into a game of chance enabling a player to make a side bet. A chip receptacle is provided at each player's location of a blackjack table for accepting the side bet. A player's key operated display selects a predetermined number of consecutive wins. A microprocessor cooperating with a sensor identifies the denomination of one or more chips placed in the chip receptacle and, together with a number of consecutive wins selected by the player, displays a payoff amount for a selected number of consecutive wins. The hands are played following conventional rules. The betting receptacle cover seals the chips after completion of a betting phase, under control of the dealer, and signals the beginning of a new game. Each player's location is provided with a Loss button, operated by the dealer when a player loses. A Push button may be provided for each player position when that player has a hand equal in value to a dealer's hand to indicate a tie.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: MAO, Inc.
    Inventors: Marvin A. Ornstein, Richard B. Hanbicki
  • Patent number: 4308431
    Abstract: Sound is created by imparting vibration to a thin membrane by means of a polar gas which is disturbed by changing electrostatic field concentrated within selected portions of the region occupied by said gas whose molecules align themselves along the field lines of the concentrated electrostatic field to impart vibration to the thin displaceable membrane and thereby create sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1981
    Inventor: Richard B. Hanbicki