Patents by Inventor Thomas S. Orselli

Thomas S. Orselli 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).

  • Roulette game apparatus and method with additional betting opportunity
    Patent number: 5540442
    Abstract: In a modified roulette game offering an additional betting opportunity with a large payoff for a winning bet, a player, having made a conventional roulette bet on a conventional roulette betting layout, may make a second or side bet on a related betting layout exhibiting only the numbers of the conventional roulette betting layout, without regard to color, parity or position. When the winning bets in the conventional layout are determined by the operation of the roulette wheel, a random number generator also generates and displays one of the conventional roulette numbers, i.e, 1-36, 0 or 00. If the number displayed by the random number generator is the same as the winning number that is determined by the roulette wheel, the side bet on that number is a winning bet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Inventors: Thomas S. Orselli, John Dunne