Patents by Inventor Richard E. Schaedel

Richard E. Schaedel 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: 6264199
    Abstract: A transformational folding puzzle assembly is formed of 24 identical tetrahedrons hingedly secured in a chain or ring. The tetrahedrons are all-space filling, and may be isosceles or other configurations. This hinged structure provides: 1) the construction of a great variety of new shapes, more than a hundred with diamond faces and hundreds more without that limitation; 2) A variety of shape dependent puzzles including a family of geometric transformational magic shapes; 3) a transformational four year calendar/ball in which the twelve months of the year are expressed on the 12 diamond faces of the ball exteriorly while the other three years are hidden in the interior of the rhombic dodecahedron ball; 4) a mechanism for holding the shapes together and joining them to one another, forming for a construction set in which each chain can transform into hundreds of other possible pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Inventor: Richard E. Schaedel