Patents by Inventor Samuel J. LoFaso, Sr.

Samuel J. LoFaso, Sr. 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).

  • Basketball practice device
    Patent number: 5803837
    Abstract: A basketball practice device wherein an auxiliary target ring or hoop is supported above a standard horizontal basketball hoop or ring in a plane that is disposed at an acute angle from the plane of the supporting ring. A curved basketball guide chute depends downwardly from the supporting ring for guiding a basketball falling through the supporting ring back toward a basketball shooter. This downwardly depending guide chute also serves as a handle mechanism for manipulating the practice device to rotate it on the standard basketball hoop or to remove from or mount it onto the standard basketball hoop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: LoFaso and LoFaso Incorporated
    Inventor: Samuel J. LoFaso, Sr.
  • Basketball practice device
    Patent number: 5558323
    Abstract: A basketball practice device wherein an auxiliary target ring is supported above a standard horizontal basketball hoop or ring in a plane that is disposed at an acute angle from the plane of the supporting ring. An adjustment mechanism as provided for selectively adjusting and maintaining this acute angle between the auxiliary target ring and the standard basketball hoop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1996
    Inventor: Samuel J. LoFaso, Sr.