Patents by Inventor Victor Mascolo

Victor Mascolo 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: 7566057
    Abstract: A stacking puzzle has a substantially horizontal stationary base, a plurality of stacks of playing pieces of progressively larger diameters having bores therethrough and a plurality of upwardly extending pegs. The pegs include shared pegs for receiving playing pieces from two of the stacks and unshared pegs for receiving playing pieces from only one of the stacks. An object of the puzzle is to displace each of the stacks in the fewest number of moves by moving the playing pieces one at a time from peg to peg. A playing piece cannot be placed over a playing piece of the same or smaller diameter and a playing piece from a stack not associated with a particular unshared peg cannot be placed on that unshared peg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Inventor: Victor Mascolo
  • Publication number: 20080185781
    Abstract: A stacking puzzle has a substantially horizontal stationary base, a plurality of stacks of playing pieces of progressively larger diameters having bores therethrough and a plurality of upwardly extending pegs. The pegs include shared pegs for receiving playing pieces from two of the stacks and unshared pegs for receiving playing pieces from only one of the stacks. An object of the puzzle is to displace each of the stacks in the fewest number of moves by moving the playing pieces one at a time from peg to peg. A playing piece cannot be placed over a playing piece of the same or smaller diameter and a playing piece from a stack not associated with a particular unshared peg cannot be placed on that unshared peg.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventor: Victor Mascolo