Patents by Inventor Rick Perrone

Rick Perrone 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: 8747212
    Abstract: A number picking game such as keno which incorporates sports animations into the visual presentation when numbers are picked by a random number generator. A player indicates the player's selection of numbers. Randomly generated numbers are determined. Animated athletes can cast a projectile onto a grid of numbers, the projectile colliding with a number on the grid and thus picking that number. The animated athletes will thus pick all of the randomly generated numbers while they are playing their sports. The player's selected numbers and the randomly generated numbers are compared and an award is made to the player based on a number of matches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Tournament One, Corp.
    Inventors: Rick Perrone, George Stadnick, Kal Patel
  • Patent number: 8613654
    Abstract: A number picking game such as keno which incorporates sports animations into the visual presentation when numbers are picked by a random number generator. A player indicates the player's selection of numbers. Randomly generated numbers are determined. Animated athletes can cast a projectile onto a grid of numbers, the projectile colliding with a number on the grid and thus picking that number. The animated athletes will thus pick all of the randomly generated numbers while they are playing their sports. The player's selected numbers and the randomly generated numbers are compared and an award is made to the player based on a number of matches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Inventors: Rick Perrone, George Stadnick, Kal Patel
  • Patent number: 8608560
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer readable storage medium to display sports and other animations using a reduced amount of assets. Pregenerated clips can be stored and combined to create complete animations with predetermined outcomes. The same predetermined outcome can have numerous animations which all result in the same predetermined outcome, all while using a reduced amount of stored assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Tournament One, Corp.
    Inventors: Rick Perrone, George Stadnick, Kal Patel, Matt Edzenga
  • Patent number: 8371921
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer readable storage to implement a wagering game combining keno and poker. A first payout is made based on a number of matches between player selected numbers and computer generated numbers on a keno grid. Card values are also associated with each number in the keno grid. The card values are determined using a deterministic hashing algorithm. Then, for each matched number, the best five card (or any other predetermined number of cards) poker hand is made using the associated card values, and a payout is made (if earned) based on a rank of the best poker hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Tournament One, Corp.
    Inventors: Rick Perrone, Roger Kidneigh, Kal Patel, George Stadnick
  • Publication number: 20120238343
    Abstract: A method to implement a roulette game that uses five (or any other number) wheels. A player can make individual bets on each of the individual wheels at the player's discretion, and when the player is done allocating his or her individual bets then the player spins the five wheels. After the wheels stop spinning, all of the player's bets on the table are resolved based on whether the bet is a winner for that particular wheel. Chips and wheels can be color (or pattern) coded so that chips appear differently depending on which roulette wheel those chips are being bet on. Chips that match the color (or pattern) of one the roulette wheels are associated with that wheel, and thus only the results of that particular roulette wheel matter to the resolution of the bet for that chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Rick Perrone, Roger Kidneigh
  • Patent number: 8216043
    Abstract: An interactive wagering game wherein a player can interact with and view a sports situation and place a wager on which of several potential outcomes a result of the situation will be. The sports situation can for example be a golfer with a ball in a sandtrap and potential results can be whether the golfer will succeed in getting the ball out of the sandtrap or not. The payout of each wager can be variable based on, for example, the difficulty or likelihood of achieving that result from the ball's current position and/or lie.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Tournament One, Corp.
    Inventors: Rick Perrone, George Stadnik